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Word Meanings - SOLACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Chaucer. The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom

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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. Chaucer. The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion. Rambler. 2. Rest; relaxation; ease. To make his steed some solace. Chaucer. Syn. -- Comfort; consolation; alleviation; relief.

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  • COMFORTLESS
    Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
  • ENCOURAGER
    One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
  • COMFORTABLY
    In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.
  • COMFORT
    1. To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate. Wyclif. God's own testimony . . . doth not a little comfort and confirm the same. Hooker. 2. To assist or help; to aid. I . . . can not help the noble chevalier: God comfort him in this
  • RELIEVEMENT
    The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release.
  • COMFORTABLE
    1. Strong; vigorous; valiant. Wyclif. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake be comfortable; hold death a while at the arm's end. Shak. 2. Serviceable; helpful. Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her.
  • ENCOURAGEMENT
    1. The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity. All generous encouragement of arts. Otway. 2. That which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance, reward,
  • ASSUAGEMENT
    Mitigation; abatement.
  • COMFORTABLENESS
    State of being comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.
  • CONSOLE
    To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe. And empty heads console with empty sound. Pope. I am much consoled by the reflection that the religion of Christ has
  • SOOTHE
    1. To assent to as true. Testament of Love. 2. To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter. Good, my lord, soothe him, let him take the fellow. Shak. I've tried the
  • COMFORTMENT
    Act or process of administering comfort. The gentle comfortment and entertainment of the said embassador. Hakluyt.
  • COMFORTRESS
    A woman who comforts. To be your comfortress, and to preserve you. B. Jonson.
  • SOLACEMENT
    The act of solacing, or the state of being solaced; also, that which solaces.
  • ASSUAGER
    One who, or that which, assuages.
  • ASSUAGE
    To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire. Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. Addison. To assuage
  • SOLACE
    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. Chaucer. The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom
  • ENCOURAGE
    To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of discourage. David encouraged himself in the Lord. 1 Sam. xxx. 6. Syn.
  • CONSOLER
    One who gives consolation.
  • SOOTHER
    One who, or that which, soothes.
  • DISCOMFORTABLE
    1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n.
  • MISCOMFORT
    Discomfort.
  • RECOMFORTLESS
    Without comfort.
  • REENCOURAGE
    To encourage again.

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