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comfort, support, or sympathy offered especially to the family and friends of somebody who has died. examples
Expressing sympathy to someone, especially after learning of a close death. quotations examples
"What were you doing at the cemetery?" "Burying my father." "Oh." Rodionov grunted as if he had expected a more imaginative excuse. "Condolences."
1992, Martin Cruz Smith, Red Square, page 120
Let's get another caller on the line. This is Camille. Camille with us from Visalia in California. Visalia, California that's correct. Go ahead please. Hi. I'm an African-American woman and when I first saw the cover – let me preface this. I'm in central California, which is very conservative. And... Condolences.
2008 July 15, NPR, “When Does It Go Too Far?”, in Talk of the Nation