consolation
someone or something that consoles: His faith was a consolation during his troubles. Her daughters are a consolation to her.
Sports. a game, match, or race for tournament entrants eliminated before the final round, as a basketball game between the losing semifinalists.
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How to use consolation in a sentence
That everything is forgiven, and they can stay as they are and enjoy the consolations of forgiveness.
Why Republicans Don't Get the Benefit of the Doubt on Race | Jamelle Bouie | March 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWest reserves the greatest disdain, however, for the consolations of religion.
American Dreams, 1933: Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West | Nathaniel Rich | April 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTUnsupported by any of those consolations which religion affords, many hours of the blackest gloom must have enveloped them.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottLa Source was a devoted Christian, and found, in the consolations of piety, an unfailing support.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottThe answer seemed to break up the order of his prearranged consolations, and he sat looking at her uncertainly.
Summer | Edith Wharton
I have understood, much better than heretofore, the "Consolations" and the "Penses d'aot."
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile GautierIf it were not for the consolations of religion, one doesn't know what would become of her.
British Dictionary definitions for consolation
/ (ˌkɒnsəˈleɪʃən) /
the act of consoling or state of being consoled; solace
a person or thing that is a source of comfort in a time of suffering, grief, disappointment, etc
Derived forms of consolation
- consolatory (kənˈsɒlətərɪ, -trɪ), adjective
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