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COMFORTS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Things that make you comfortable and at ease
Example:
all the comforts of home
Synonyms:
amenities; comforts; conveniences; creature comforts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("comforts" is a kind of...):
bread and butter; keep; livelihood; living; support; sustenance (the financial means whereby one lives)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb comfort
Context examples:
Catherine could have raved at the hand which had swept away what must have been beyond the value of all the rest, for the purposes of mere domestic economy; and would willingly have been spared the mortification of a walk through scenes so fallen, had the general allowed it; but if he had a vanity, it was in the arrangement of his offices; and as he was convinced that, to a mind like Miss Morland's, a view of the accommodations and comforts, by which the labours of her inferiors were softened, must always be gratifying, he should make no apology for leading her on.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Dear Dr. Van Helsing comforts me by telling me that I am fully armed as there may be wolves; the weather is getting colder every hour, and there are snow-flurries which come and go as warnings.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
She is poor; she has sunk from the comforts she was born to; and, if she live to old age, must probably sink more.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She did earn several that year, and began to feel herself a power in the house, for by the magic of a pen, her 'rubbish' turned into comforts for them all.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
In space, light, furniture, and prospect, there was nothing alike in the two apartments; and she often heaved a sigh at the remembrance of all her books and boxes, and various comforts there.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Sailors work hard enough for their comforts, we must all allow.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Elizabeth could safely say that it was a great happiness where that was the case, and with equal sincerity could add, that she firmly believed and rejoiced in his domestic comforts.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
To see her, who had seen Dora but a little while before—to trace the initial letter of Dora's name through her sympathetic pages—to be made more and more miserable by her—were my only comforts.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He would have had a wife of whose temper he could make no complaint, but he would have been always necessitous—always poor; and probably would soon have learned to rank the innumerable comforts of a clear estate and good income as of far more importance, even to domestic happiness, than the mere temper of a wife.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Emma's comforts and hopes were most agreeably carried on, by Harriet's being to stay longer; her fortnight was likely to be a month at least.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
