Definition of Comfort

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Comfort

To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.

To assist or help; to aid.

To impart strength and hope to; to encourage; to relieve; to console; to cheer.

Assistance; relief; support.

Encouragement; solace; consolation in trouble; also, that which affords consolation.

A state of quiet enjoyment; freedom from pain, want, or anxiety; also, whatever contributes to such a condition.

A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable.

Unlawful support, countenance, or encouragement; as, to give aid and comfort to the enemy.

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Comfort Quotations

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Winston Churchill

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Kahlil Gibran

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Bill Cosby

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William Shakespeare

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao Tzu

Comfort Translations

comfort in Afrikaans is troos
comfort in Dutch is gemak, comfort, gerief
comfort in Finnish is lohduttaa
comfort in French is confort, baume, consoler, aise
comfort in German is Bequemlichkeit, Komfort
comfort in Italian is consolazione
comfort in Latin is commodum, levamentum
comfort in Norwegian is bekvemmelighet
comfort in Portuguese is conforto
comfort in Spanish is anchas, consuelo, comodidad

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