recomfort means to console (someone); to comfort, look after. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
recomfort is pronounced /ɹiːˈkʌmfət/.
Why “recomfort” is a great word
RECOMFORT — [Verb] To restore solace or vigor anew to someone who has been disheartened; to console and strengthen after a lapse. From Anglo-Norman reconforter, Middle French reconforter, from re- (expressing intensive force or repetition) + conforter ("to strengthen, comfort"). Unlike "comfort," which soothes a present distress, or "encourage," which offers forward momentum, to recomfort is to rebuild the fortress of the spirit after its walls have been breached. It is the hand that lifts a knight from the mud of a lost joust, the re-lighting of a fire in a room grown cold, and the whispered assurance that the lost path can be found again—a quiet, persistent defiance against the world’s talent for wearing things down.
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman reconforter, Middle French reconforter, from re- + conforter.
verb
- To console (someone); to comfort, look after.“With that cam his moder the quene of Orkeney dame Morgause / And whan she sawe syr Gareth redely in the vysage she myghte not wepe but sodenly felle doun in a swoune / and lay there a grete whyle lyke as she had ben dede / And thenne syr Gareth recomforted his moder in suche wyse that she recouerd and made good chere”
- To inspire with new courage; to encourage.
- To reinvigorate, to strengthen.“And therefore it is an experiment , though vulgar in strawberries , yet not brought into use generally : for it is usual to help the ground with muck , and likewise to recomfort it sometimes with muck put to the roots”