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consoling

adjective C2
  1. Reducing grief, sorrow, or disappointment; comforting.
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However, he, like Cæsar Borgia, knew the value of time; and, in order to avoid fruitless toil, he sounded all the other walls with his pickaxe, struck the earth with the butt of his gun, and finding nothing that appeared suspicious, returned to that part of the wall whence issued the consoling sound he had before heard.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 260 · C1
This was not very consoling to Mrs.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 152 · B2
Nor was Darcy’s vindication, though grateful to her feelings, capable of consoling her for such discovery.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 253 · B2
It was consoling that he should know she had some relations for whom there was no need to blush.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 286 · B2

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