consolation
/ˌkɑn.səˈleɪ.ʃən/ noun B2- The act or example of consoling; the condition of being consoled.
- The prize or benefit for the loser.
- A consolation goal.
Plural consolations
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But one can dream just as well in them as in lovely trailing ones, with frills around the neck, that’s one consolation.”
It may be some consolation to you when you’re dead to know that I shall settle accounts with the boy.
That is one consolation when you are poor--there are so many more things you can imagine about.”
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark.
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