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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consolation \Con`so*la"tion\, n. [L. consolatio: cf. F. consolation.] The act of consoling; the state of being consoled; allevation of misery or distress of mind; refreshment of spirit; comfort; that which consoles or comforts the spirit.
Against such cruelties
With inward consolations recompensed.
--Milton.
Are the consolations of God small with thee?
--Job xv.
11.
Syn: Comfort; solace; allevation. See Comfort.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "act of consoling," from Old French consolacion (11c., Modern French consolation) "solace, comfort; delight, pleasure," from Latin consolationem (nominative consolatio-) "consoling, comforting," noun of action from consolat-, past participle stem of consolari (see console (v.)). Consolation prize is recorded from 1886.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of console. 2 The prize or benefit for the loser. 3 (context sports English) A consolation goal
WordNet
n. the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment; "second place was no consolation to him" [syn: solace, solacement]
the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction; "his presence was a consolation to her" [syn: comfort, solace]
Wikipedia
Consolation is the name of a former Dutch death metal/ grindcore band from the Zaanstreek that formed in 1989. They released three full-length albums through Displeased Records and were called the Dutch "Gods of Grind"; at their peak, in the late 1990s, they were one of the highest rated metal bands in the Netherlands, according to Dutch metal magazine Aardschok.
The band split up in 1999. They more or less restarted in 2002 as Cardinal, playing shows as late as 2005. A real comeback under their old name came in late 2008, when they announced reunion shows at the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009.
Consolation is the act of offering psychological comfort to someone who has suffered severe, upsetting loss. It may also refer to:
- Consolation (band) is a Dutch death metal/grindcore band.
- Consolation payment, to relatives of civilians who have died accidentally
- Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius AD524
- Seneca's Consolations (redirect from Consolations)
- The Consolations of Philosophy a nonfiction book by Alain de Botton, 2000
- Consolation, former title of Awake!, a monthly magazine
- Consolations, six short piano pieces by Liszt (1850) inspired by Charles Sainte-Beuve
- Consolation, song by Vertical Horizon on Echoes from the Underground
- Consolation (album) by Japanese girl group Kalafina
- Consolation, 1967 song by the Hep Stars
Consolation is the fourth studio album by the Japanese girl group Kalafina.
Consolation, consolement, and solace are terms referring to psychological comfort given to someone who has suffered severe, upsetting loss, such as the death of a loved one. It is typically provided by expressing shared regret for that loss and highlighting the hope for positive events in the future. Consolation is an important topic arising in history, the arts, philosophy, and psychology.
In the field of medicine, consolation has been broadly described as follows:
In some contexts, particularly in religious terminology, consolation is described as the opposite or counterpart to the experience of "desolation", or complete loss.
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.