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Comfortress

Comfortress \Com"fort*ress\, n. A woman who comforts.

To be your comfortress, and to preserve you.
--B. Jonson.

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comfortress

n. (context rare English) A woman who comforts.

Usage examples of "comfortress".

Also the designations of Biblical characters as "Lily of Israel, Rose of Sharon, Comfortress of the Afflicted, Help of Christians, Prince of the Apostles, Star of the Sea," etc.