consolation
noun
the act of consoling; comfort; solace.
consolations
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pluralof consolation.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Throughout the book she displays the fundamental bewilderment of the secular postmodernist contending with huge life events while cut off from the consolations of any one tradition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
But what these consolations must entail has often been a fraught debate.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2025
Let's give the biblical authors credit for taking the sublimity of our loss straight up instead of chasing false consolations.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024
And memory — what consolations can it offer when we know it doesn’t last?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
“Too awful,” she kept repeating, and all Bernard’s consolations were in vain.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
