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comforter

COMFORTER, n.

1. One who administers comfort or consolation; one who strengthens and supports the mind in distress or danger.

I looked for comforters, but found none. Ps. 69.

Miserable comforters are ye all. Job. 16.

2. The title of the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name--he shall teach you all things. John 14.


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COMFORTER, n.

1. One who administers comfort or consolation; one who strengthens and supports the mind in distress or danger.

I looked for comforters, but found none. Ps. 69.

Miserable comforters are ye all. Job. 16.

2. The title of the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name--he shall teach you all things. John 14.

COM'FORT-ER, n.

  1. One who administers comfort or consolation; one who strengthens and supports the mind in distress or danger. I looked for comforters, but found none. – Ps. lxix. Miserable comforters are ye all. – Job xvi.
  2. The title of the Holy Spirit, whose office it is to comfort and support the Christian. But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things. – John xiv.

Com"fort*er
  1. One who administers comfort or consolation.

    Let no comforter delight mine ear
    But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.
    Shak.

  2. The Holy Spirit, -- referring to his office of comforting believers.

    But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things.
    John xiv. 26.

  3. A knit woolen tippet, long and narrow.

    [U. S.]

    The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight.
    Pop. Sci. Monthly.

  4. A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable.

    [U. S.]

    Job's comforter, a boil. [Colloq.]

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Comforter

COMFORTER, noun

1. One who administers comfort or consolation; one who strengthens and supports the mind in distress or danger.

I looked for comforters, but found none. Psalms 69:20.

Miserable comforters are ye all. Job 16:2.

2. The title of the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name--he shall teach you all things. John 14:16.

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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choice

CHOICE, n.

1. The act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; or the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.

Ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my moth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. Acts 15.

2. The power of choosing; option.

Where there is force, there can be no choice.

Of these alternatives we have our own choice.

3. Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference.

I imagine Cesars apothems were collected with judgment and choice.

4. The thing chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.

Nor let thy conquests only be her choice.

5. The best part of any thing; that which is preferable, and properly the object of choice.

In the choice of our sepulchers bury thy dead. Gen. 23.

6. The act of electing to office by vote; election.

To make choice of, to choose; to select; to separate and take in preference.

CHOICE, a.

1. Worthy of being preferred; select; precious; very valuable.

My choicest hours of life are lost.

My revenue is better than choice silver. Prov. 8.

2. Holding dear; preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; as, to be choice of time or of advantages.

3. Selecting with care, and due attention to preference; as, to be choice of ones company.

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