solace
noun
comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble; alleviation of distress or discomfort.
had been solacing
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past perfect progressiveof solace.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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The disappearance of the tin box, whoever might have removed it, would render it impossible to carry out plans of Californian emigration with which he had been solacing himself all the morning.
From The Tin Box and What it Contained by Horatio Alger
She had been solacing herself after the long oppression of the day, with this gentle effusion, much as we have a vein opened after some severe contusion.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
