Consolatory

/kənˈsɒl.ət.(ə)ɹ.i/ · adjective

Meaning

Which consoles..

Definitions by Sense

1. Which consoles.
2. That which consoles; a speech or writing intended for consolation.

Example Sentences

1649, John Donne, Fifty Sermons, London: M.F., J. Marriot and R. Royston, Volume 2, “Sermon XVII. Preached at Lincolns Inne,” p. 140, Where then is the restorative, the consolatory nature of these words? In this, beloved, consists our comfort […]

[…] where in he reporteth of the coragius wordes that were moch consolatory […]

The punishment of real tyrants is a noble and awful act of justice; and it has with truth been said to be consolatory to the human mind.

“It is singularly reviving after such hurricanes to feel calm return, and from the opening clouds to receive a consolatory gleam, softly testifying that the sun is not quenched.”

Supper had been eaten, the turkey had been trussed, the children at last persuaded into their beds. That was the consolatory side of family life, Grorley thought—the long, Olympian codas of the emotions were cut short by the niggling detail.

1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, lines 658-662, in Paradise Regain’d […] to which is added Samson Agonistes, London: John Starkey, pp. 43-44, Consolatories writ With studied argument, and much perswasion sought Lenient of grief and anxious thought, But with' afflicted in his pangs thir sound Little prevails,

How is it possible to imagine, that a woman, who has all these consolatories to reflect upon, will die of a broken heart?

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• more consolatory
• most consolatory
• consolatories

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