[
UK
/sˈɒlɪs/
]
[ US /ˈsɑɫəs, ˈsoʊɫɪs/ ]
[ US /ˈsɑɫəs, ˈsoʊɫɪs/ ]
NOUN
-
the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction
his presence was a consolation to her -
the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment
second place was no consolation to him - comfort in disappointment or misery
VERB
- give moral or emotional strength to
How To Use solace In A Sentence
- _Agesilaus_ hauing a great sort of little children, was one day disposed to solace himself among them in a gallery where they plaied, and tooke a little hobby horse of wood and bestrid it to keepe them in play, one of his friends seemed to mislike his lightnes, o good friend quoth The Arte of English Poesie
- If this bald truth makes any one of us feel uncomfortable, we can take some solace in knowing we are not the only species to exploit the lie.
- Nevertheless, the novel is there, with its boundless substance, and the reader finds a certain solace in the heightened awareness which he acquires from the inevitable element of tragedy inherent in all life. Nobel Prize in Literature 1937 - Presentation Speech
- You take solace in your daily routines and find them comforting. The Sun
- In the wake of her latest heartbreak, Jennifer Aniston has again sought solace in her long-term confidant and former Friends costar Courteney Cox. WN.com - Articles related to Djokovic on fire ahead of Finals
- And when you feel happy you are less likely to turn to food for comfort or solace. Times, Sunday Times
- It is easy to see -- and indeed to admire -- why Africans, snatched from their homeland, enchained in slavery and forced to become Christians, would take their newly imposed religion and turn it into a source of solace and strength. Clay Farris Naff: White Or Black, The Church Has Failed African Americans
- In the seventh edition (1720) I find to my great solace and comfort the entry, dog, 'a well-known creature, 'a somewhat meagre definition, improved into 'a quadruped well-known' by Nathaniel Bailey, whose dictionary, first published in octavo (1721), ran through a very large number of editions and became the standard authority until superseded by Johnson. On Dictionaries
- Aunt Alicia found solace in the little Sara, as bubbly and zestful as her nephew had been.
- It is real, sometimes a balm and sometimes an irritant, a cause of solace but something that can also rouse you to anger or despair. Times, Sunday Times