| 单词 |
comfortress |
| 释义 |
comfortress Now rare.|ˈkʌmfətrɪs| Also 5 confortouresse. [a. OF. conforteresse, fem. of confortère: see -ess.] A female comforter.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. cxlii. (1869) 73 Ladi, quod j, ther of shule ye be leche and confortouresse. 1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) i. xlii. 69 b/2 Our lady, Tresorye of grace, comfortresse of desolate. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1594) 453 To give him [Adam] a wife, for a faithfull companion, a comfortresse of his life. 1605B. Jonson Volpone iii. vii. 80 To be your comfortresse, and to preserve you. 1766Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. Ded. 1 The Comfortress of Affliction! 1868R. A. Coffin tr. Liguori's Glories of Mary 81 O comfortress of the afflicted. |

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