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Definition of Console
Console

To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.

A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height.

Any small bracket; also, a console table.

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Console Quotations

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise Pascal

Console Translations

console in Afrikaans is troos
console in Dutch is vertroosten, troosten
console in Finnish is lohduttaa
console in French is consolons, consolent, consoler, consolez
console in German is Bedienungsfeld, Bedienungsfeld, Tatstatur
console in Italian is consolare
console in Spanish is consolar


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