condolence

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an expression of sympathy with another's grief

   They sent their condolences.

From condole + -ence, or from Middle French condoléance, or formed from the root of Latin condoleō (“to sympathize”), from con- (“together, with”) and doleō (“to hurt, suffer, have pain”).

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