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Solace   /sˈɑləs/  /sˈoʊlɪs/   Listen
noun
Solace  n.  
1.
Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief. "In business of mirth and of solace." "The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion."
2.
Rest; relaxation; ease. (Obs.) "To make his steed some solace."
Synonyms: Comfort; consolation; alleviation; relief.


verb
Solace  v. t.  (past & past part. solaced; pres. part. solacing)  
1.
To cheer in grief or under calamity; to comfort; to relieve in affliction, solitude, or discomfort; to console; applied to persons; as, to solace one with the hope of future reward.
2.
To allay; to assuage; to soothe; as, to solace grief.
Synonyms: To comfort; assuage; allay. See Comfort.


Solace  v. i.  To take comfort; to be cheered.





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"Solace" Quotes from Famous Books



... entrees, which she wanted to superintend herself, but which the Marchesa handed over to Mrs. Sinclair, had a great deal too much butter in its composition. Her conscience revolted at the action of consuming in one dish enough butter to solace the breakfast-table of an honest working man for two or three days; but the faintness of these criticisms seemed to prove that every one was well satisfied with the rendering of the menu of ...
— The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste: - Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes • Mrs. W. G. Waters
... one of his most violent humours. He found some slight solace in the reflection that the impudent chauffeur, from whom he had parted in West India Dock Road, must experience great difficulty in finding his way ...
— Tales of Chinatown • Sax Rohmer
... of it which is the sweet unction of her hungry soul, she seeks solace in an ideal world of her own making. It is because the verity jars upon her vision that she takes ...
— The Spinster Book • Myrtle Reed
... was now playing the conscious hypocrite; not a pleasant thing to face and accept, but the fault was not his—fate had brought it about. At all events, he aimed at no vulgar profit; his one desire was for human fellowship; he sought nothing but that solace which every code of morals has deemed legitimate. Let the society which compelled to such an expedient bear the burden ...
— Born in Exile • George Gissing
... and therefore felt it wise to convey his knowledge merely through the conviction carried by a dignified silence after his first indiscreet revelation of having "happened to be about" had been made. It would have been some solace to him to intimate to Miss Alicia by his bearing and the manner of his services that she had been discovered, so to speak, in the character of a sort of accomplice; that her position was a perilously uncertain one, which would probably end in utter ...
— T. Tembarom • Frances Hodgson Burnett


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