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n. - The comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment; Comfort in disappointment or misery.

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  • Thomas Browne, and other renowned old authors, from whom I now derive so much pleasure and solacement.
  • "Patience shall peradventure lead to solacement," quoth they; and
  • It must have been a great solacement to Dante, and was, as we can see,
  • He has secret solacement in a latent belief that he himself is an exception.
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