What is "consolers"

Usage examples of "consolers".

Some of us also teach, some are consolers, and some take away life according to the Mortal Dictum.

The only true advantage the consolers had was that they had been through much the same experiences and really did understand how it affected people.

These men were, for the most part, guards, whose merit D'Artagnan had had an opportunity of appreciating in various encounters, whom drunkenness, unlucky sword-thrusts, unexpected winnings at play, or the economical reforms of Mazarin, had forced to seek shade and solitude, those two great consolers of irritated and chafing spirits.