Consolatory definition

kənsälətôrē, kənsōlətôrē
Consoling or tending to console; comforting.
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Which consoles.
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That which consoles; a speech or writing intended for consolation.

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Noun

Singular:
consolatory
Plural:
consolatories

Consolatory Sentence Examples

  • The most frenzied scrutiny failed to disclose any eldritch tentacles writhing from the graves, nor even a consolatory puddle of blasphemous ichor.

  • This year a change in the ICR procedures has enabled me to recommend consolatory payments in appropriate circumstances.

  • They conclude (c) with Messianic or consolatory passages on the future glory of Israel.

  • The work, which is certainly not a forgery, but only a consolatory political pamphlet, is just as powerful, viewed according to the author's evident intention, as a consolation to God's people in their dire distress at the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, as if it were, what an ancient but mistaken tradition had made it, really an accurate account of events which took place at the close of the Babylonian period.'

  • And now during these last three weeks of the march he had learned still another new, consolatory truth--that nothing in this world is terrible.

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