Comfort vs Elation - What's the difference?
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Contentment, ease.
Something that offers comfort.
A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.
A cause of relief or satisfaction.
To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.
* Francis Bacon
To make comfortable. (rfex)
(obsolete) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
* Hooker
(obsolete) To assist or help; to aid.
* Shakespeare
An exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism.
A feeling of joy and pride.
A collineation that fixes all points on a line (called its axis) and all lines though a point on the axis (called its center).
Comfort is a related term of elation.
As nouns the difference between comfort and elation
is that comfort is contentment, ease while elation is an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism.As a verb comfort
is to relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.comfort
English
Noun
(en noun)- Sleep in comfort with our new mattress.
- the comforts of home
- We still have the spare tire? That's a comfort at least.
- The outcome of the peace negotiations in Moscow in 1940 was a heavy blow to the young nation, but in the same time a great comfort : at least the independency was preserved.
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(en verb)- Rob comforted Aaron because he was lost and very sad.
- Light excelleth in comforting the spirits of men.
- (Wyclif)
- God's own testimony doth not a little comfort and confirm the same.
- I cannot help the noble chevalier: / God comfort him in this necessity!