comforter

IPA: kˈʌmfɝtɝ

Root Word: Comforter

noun

  • (Christianity) The Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost.
  • A person who comforts someone who is suffering.
  • (US) A padded cover for a bed, duvet, continental quilt.
  • (dated, chiefly UK) A woollen scarf for winter.
  • (New Zealand, Australia) A pacifier.
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Examples of "comforter" in Sentences

  • The Spirit, as a comforter, is the earnest of our inheritance.
  • This comforter is the Spirit of truth, whom you know, v. 16, 17.
  • If a comforter is used, cover it with an allergen-proof cover to keep the mites out.
  • Mostly, I cling to blankets in the summertime because the comforter is hot, heavy, and a bear to wash if anything spills on it.
  • I have new sheets and new pillows (my new comforter is back-ordered, but enroute) and I begin to understand Brian Wilson's point.
  • I could be wrong about this, but I always thought the duvet was meant to slip inside of a cover, while the comforter is already decorative and is meant to be used as is.
  • In my exhaustion, naivete, or hopefulness (or all three), I imagined the man in the comforter was a mentally ill relative who the man in jeans was trying to stop and help.
  • She had insisted upon his learning his catechism, and attending church twice every Sunday, and she had knitted him a comforter, the material being that harsh and scrubby worsted which makes the word comforter a sound of derision.
  • And the socialised home of the future, living, provident, kindly; educator and comforter; is the true and worthy home of those human mates who wish to better the species, and to send the race forward triumphant into the eternity of life!

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