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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



... 'Tis solace making baubles, ay, and sport. Tasteth, himself, no finer good i' the world Than trying what to ...
— The Child Under Eight • E.R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith
... opening the door, went out into the night. Cool breaths of air gave a crinkly rattle to the swinging paper lanterns, and he could hear the soft whipping of the flags which Mary Standish had placed over his cabin. There was something comforting in the sound, a solace to the dishevelment of nerves he had suffered, a reminder of their day in Skagway when she had walked at his side with her hand resting warmly in his arm and her eyes and face filled with ...
— The Alaskan • James Oliver Curwood
... world, the inevitable first thought is of love as a refuge from spiritual pursuit. The story is shortly told in nine lines. The human and the divine love are rivals here; pagan versus ideal affection. The hunted heart is not allowed to find refuge or solace in human love. The man knows that it is Love that follows him: yet it is the warm, red, earthly passion that he craves for, and the divine pursuer seems ...
— Among Famous Books • John Kelman
... faire dede of armes (alle beit that I dide none my self, for myn unable insuffisance) now I am comen hom (mawgre my self) to reste; for gowtes artetykes, that me distreynen, tho diffynen the ende of my labour, agenst my wille (God knowethe). And thus takynge solace in my wrecced reste, recordynge the tyme passed, I have fulfilled theise thinges and putte hem wryten in this boke, as it wolde come in to my mynde, the year of grace 1356 in the 34 yeer that I departede from oure contrees. Werfore ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand
... not of a nature to excite general cupidity. It consisted, not of precious stones, but of relics of his dead wife—her rings, a lock of her hair, her letters, a miniature of her in a gold case. These poor keepsakes, and his daughter, had been the only solace of his lonely ...
— David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales • Julian Hawthorne


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