comfort

Definition

Contentment, ease.

Etymology

From Middle English comfort, from Old French cunfort, confort, from the stem of Late Latin confortō. It replaced Old English frofor, Middle English frovre.

Example Sentences

• "Sleep in comfort with our new mattress."
• "But all was in vain: For having ranged up and down the Woods for ſome days, without finding the leaſt comfort to their hungry deſires, they were forced to return again unto the River. […] At laſt they arrived at the Coaſt of the Sea, where they found ſome comfort and relief to their former miſeries, and alſo means to ſeek more."
• "How often is the comfort of a whole family abridged by some trifling circumstance, that ought not to have made a visible impression!"