Crossword clues for solace
solace
- Comfort in misery
- Comfort in time of distress
- Comfort at a time of sadness
- In C major, G string provides comforting 32
- Cheer up
- Comfort in distress
- Buck up
- Source of relief
- Comfort in sorrow
- Offer comfort to
- Emotional support
- Comfort for a griever
- Comfort during hard times
- Soothing words
- Pain relief
- Living Colour "___ of You"
- "There, there," e.g
- Take ___ in (find comforting)
- Relief from grief
- Offer commiserations to
- Ease of mind
- Comfort in hard times
- Comfort in grief
- Comfort during a crisis
- '90 Living Colour single "___ of You"
- Comforting words
- Take away the pain
- Say "There, there" to, e.g
- Comfort giver
- Relief in affliction
- Assuage
- Grief relief
- Console
- Bond film "Quantum of ___"
- Give comfort to
- Comfort in disappointment or misery
- The act of consoling
- Giving relief in affliction
- The comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment
- Consolation
- Mourner's need
- Mitigate
- Soothe
- Be of comfort to
- Joplin tango
- Allay grief
- "Sorrow chang'd to ___ . . . ": Shak.
- Very material comfort
- Very large card bringing comfort in hard times
- Console expert after smear sees one sacked
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Solace \Sol"ace\, n. [OF. solas, ssoulaz, L. solacium, solatium, fr. solari to comfort, console. Cf. Console, v. t.]
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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.
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Rest; relaxation; ease. [Obs.]
To make his steed some solace.
--Chaucer.Syn: Comfort; consolation; alleviation; relief.
Solace \Sol"ace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Solaced; p. pr. & vb. n. Solacing.] [OF. solacier, soulacier, F. solacier, LL. solatiare. See Solace, n.]
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.
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To allay; to assuage; to soothe; as, to solace grief.
Syn: To comfort; assuage; allay. See Comfort.
Solace \Sol"ace\, v. i.
To take comfort; to be cheered.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"comfort in grief, consolation," late 13c., from Old French solaz "pleasure, entertainment, enjoyment; solace, comfort," from Latin solacium "a soothing, assuaging; comfort, consolation," from solatus, past participle of solari "to console, soothe," from PIE *sol-a-, suffixed form of root *sele- "of good mood; to favor" (cognates: Old English gesælig "happy;" see silly). Adjectival form solacious is attested 16c.-17c.
"comfort, console in grief," late 13c.; also in Middle English "entertain, amuse, please," from Old French solacier "comfort, console" (often with a sexual connotation) and directly from Medieval Latin solatiare "give solace, console" (source also of Spanish solazar, Italian sollazzare), from Latin solacium (see solace (n.)). Related: Solaced; solacing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 comfort or consolation in a time of distress. 2 A source of comfort or consolation. vb. 1 To give solace to; comfort; cheer; console. 2 To allay or assuage. 3 (context intransitive English) To take comfort; to be cheered.
WordNet
n. the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment; "second place was no consolation to him" [syn: consolation, solacement]
comfort in disappointment or misery [syn: solacement]
the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction; "his presence was a consolation to her" [syn: consolation, comfort]
v. give moral or emotional strength to [syn: comfort, soothe, console]
Wikipedia
Solace, from Old French solas, from Latin sōlācium "consolation", meaning comfort or consolation in a time of distress.
Solace may also refer to:
Solace is the third album by the New Zealand post-rock band Jakob. It was released through Midium Records in New Zealand on September 11, 2006 and on May 7, 2007 via Graveface Records in North America. The album was recorded, mixed and produced by David Holmes in May of 2006 at Venn Productions in Auckland then mastered by Chris Winchcombe. First single "Safety in Numbers" was announced in August 2006 and later released as a music video directed by Ed Davis.
Solace is the second album from Australian roots musician Xavier Rudd, released in Australia on 28 March 2004 and which debuted in the top twenty of the ARIA album chart on 5 April 2004. It is his first record distributed by a major label with distribution by Universal Music Australia. Solaces success earned Rudd two ARIA Music Awards nominations for Best Breakthrough Artist (album) and Best Blues and Roots Album at the 2005 ceremony, but lost to Jet's Get Born and John Butler Trio's Sunrise Over Sea, respectively.
Solace is the second studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan, released on June 29, 1991, on Nettwerk in Canada and January 28, 1992, on Arista Records in the United States. It was the album that first made her a star in Canada, spawning the hit singles " The Path of Thorns (Terms)" and " Into the Fire" and being certified double platinum for sales of 200,000 copies in Canada.
Although the album received favourable reviews internationally, her commercial breakthrough outside of Canada would not come until her next full album, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy.
Solace is a heavy metal band hailing from the Jersey Shore, United States.
Formed in 1996 by the remaining members of Atlantic Records artist Godspeed, Solace is most well known in the stoner rock genre, but as guitarist and founding member Tommy Southard has said "We're not a stoner band, we're a rock 'n' roll band—a hard rock band, a metal band." This idea was reaffirmed by iTunes.com in 2010 when they voted the band's third studio album A.D. "2010 Metal Album of the Year". However, their live performances at Stoner Rock festivals such as America's Emissions from the Monolith and Europe's Roadburn Festival, have rooted them just as deeply in that genre.
Solace is the first full length album by the Norwegian metal band Lengsel. A renowned album, Solace initially was released on Endtime Productions as a digipak edition in 2000. Around this time the vocalist and guitarist was also a bass player for fellow Norwegian band Extol, who had at the time become an immensely popular band on the American label Tooth and Nail Records' imprint Solid State Records. Label owner Brandon Ebel licensed Solace for Solid State, marketing it with stickers on the album cover stating that it includes members of Extol. The album was also licensed for the German label Black Sun Records.
Solace (; lit. "Things You Say When You're in Love") is a 2006 South Korean film, and the directorial debut of Byeon Seung-wook. It stars Han Suk-kyu as a pharmacist who cares for his mentally disabled brother, and the relationship he builds with a debt-saddled woman (played by Kim Ji-soo) who sells fake designer clothes.
Solace is the second studio album by the Canadian band Ion Dissonance, released on September 6, 2005 through Abacus Recordings. This album incorporated deathcore influences, while significantly reducing grindcore elements.
Solace is a 2015 American mystery thriller film directed by Afonso Poyart and starring Anthony Hopkins, Colin Farrell, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Abbie Cornish. The film's script was originally planned and developed as a sequel to the 1995 thriller film Se7en, but the idea was eventually scrapped, and Solace was completed instead.
Usage examples of "solace".
For in this grievous calamity, this distressing bereavement, the best consolation and solace that the spiritual souls could offer is to dedicate themselves to the service of the Cause, to diffuse widely the sweet savours of holiness, to become wanderers in the path of that heavenly Best-Beloved, to let their whole beings burn and melt, and be enkindled with the fire of His love.
The cubiculum had been turned into a shrine of some kind, although I had a hard time imagining who might be so desperate as to seek solace in such a place.
China for days, then weeks at a time, coming back depressed and exhausted to find solace in whiskey, which he consumed in surprisingly moderate quantities but with fierce concentration, and in midnight bagpipe recitals that woke up everyone in Dovetail and a few sensitive sleepers in the New Atlantis Clave.
He had come to Castle Dring hoping to find solace in the company of his adopted family, to seek counsel from the Wolf, and to beg his patron god for guidance.
Maggie should have taken solace in the fact that her sister was flighty and had, in the past, disappeared for a few days.
He was pleased to say that, believing in God and His works, he was persuaded his nails had been given him to procure the only solace he was capable of in the kind of fury with which he was tormented.
However, the mere telling of her story had afforded her some solace, and after kissing her in such a way as to convince her that I was not like my brother, I wished her good night.
The Nymph leadeth the inamored Poliphilus to other pleasant places, where he beheld innumerable Nymphs solacing them, and also the triumph of Vertumnus and Pomona.
Regrettably, there were times when Jarry actively sought whatever solace it was he found in drink and, for any person so inclined, the drink was always there to be found.
His fireplaces seemed to give no heat, a tryst with an octoroon girl no solace.
The uncertain light of dusk softened their raddled features and hectic painted cheeks and lips - Huy wondered what solace a man could find with the likes of them.
Storri, encouraged in his soul by the return of his San Reve to reason, solaced himself with a fresh cigar.
And with these and such like pleasaunt and gratious questions, these fayre young Virgins, sporting and solacing themselues, we washt and bathed together.
And I was no sooner entered into this agony, and ouerwhelmed in this passion, but as I passed on to the other ende of the Arbor, I might perceiue a farre off, a great number of youthes, solacing and sporting themselues very loude with diuers melodious soundes, with pleasant sports and sundry pastimes, in great ioye, and passing delight assembled together, in a large playne.
The Nymph hauing at large declared vnto Poliphilus the mysticall triumphs and extreeme loue, afterwards she desired him to go on further, where also with great delight he beheld innumerable other Nymphs, with their desired louers, in a thousand sorts of pleasures solacing themselues vpon the greene grasse, fresh shadowes, and by the coole riuers and cleere fountaines.