recomfort

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
18
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ɹiːˈkʌmfət/ (UK)

Definition of recomfort

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (archaic, transitive)To console (someone); to comfort, look after.
    “With that cam his moder the quene of Orkeney dame Morgause / And whan she sawe syr Gareth redely in the vysage she myghte not wepe but sodenly felle doun in a swoune / and lay there a grete whyle lyke as she had ben dede / And thenne syr Gareth recomforted his moder in suche wyse that she recouerd and made good chere”
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verb

  1. (archaic, transitive)To console (someone); to comfort, look after.
    “With that cam his moder the quene of Orkeney dame Morgause / And whan she sawe syr Gareth redely in the vysage she myghte not wepe but sodenly felle doun in a swoune / and lay there a grete whyle lyke as she had ben dede / And thenne syr Gareth recomforted his moder in suche wyse that she recouerd and made good chere”
  2. (archaic, transitive)To inspire with new courage; to encourage.
  3. (archaic, transitive)To reinvigorate, to strengthen.
    “And therefore it is an experiment , though vulgar in strawberries , yet not brought into use generally : for it is usual to help the ground with muck , and likewise to recomfort it sometimes with muck put to the roots”

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Etymology

From Anglo-Norman reconforter, Middle French reconforter, from re- + conforter.

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