Comfort after loss or disappointment

Usage examples of consolation.

In 850 the synod of Pavia resolved that all who refused to submit to the discipline of the Church should be anathematised, and cut off from every Christian hope and consolation.

Their only consolation now is the realization that through her painstaking and sustained labours for the Cause in Auckland Mrs Blundell has left an abiding monument to her memory, and one which will continue for many years to come to inspire and strengthen them all in their collective endeavours for the establishment of the Faith in New Zealand.

Spiritualism, with its very real and awful mysteries, is, to him, a vulgar thing because it brought consolation to common folk, but he loves to read papers on the Palladian Cultus, ancient and accepted Scottish rites, and Baphometic figures.

Stephen had the consolation of his watch, an elegant Breguet, a minute-repeater, that had travelled with him and consoled him for more years than he could easily reckon.

It would have been more consolation to have Sergeant Aloysius Mullins aboard the Carib Queen.

Croisse, at the appointed time, repaired to the convent of St Angelo, and entered into the severe order of the Carthusians, where he found, in the purified conversation of his early companion, the pious Benedicta, and that of Father Andrea, all the consolation he was capable of receiving.

Almost his only consolation was a continuing series of interviews with Howard Ogden, who travelled up to see him regularly from his small office in Cheltenham from the middle of May until the end of July.

When Lord Rens died, still blaspheming, and without any of the consolations of religion, Domini felt the imperious need of change.

The exquisite avarice and cruelty of Domitian appear to have deprived the unfortunate of this last consolation, and it was still denied even by the clemency of the Antonines.

The only consolation he had was that his great friends were kinder to him than ever, and the king himself honoured him with peculiar attention.

And the succeeding books each took off, in their turn, from the leftover drafts of work that preceded it until, at the end of his life, Gaddis determined to transform his accumulated research into one gemlike meditation without false illusions or consolations.

This letter administered the same kind of consolation to poor Jones, which job formerly received from his friends.

She stopped at Loxa, where she administered aid and consolation to the wounded, distributing money among them for their support, according to their rank.

And muster strength to bear my lucklessness Without vain hope of consolations now.

The Margate Hook and the havoc it wreaked with the occasional passing ship made one of the few consolations of living on this desolate edge of Kent.