consoler

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The builders of the ships, the forgers of the cannon, the redemptionaries of the idle sole, the consolers of the dying and the mourners for the dead, took it up.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2020

He sees angels as invisible consolers, gentle kibitzers in the monologues that run endlessly through our mind.

From Time Magazine Archive

Laila had been to funerals before where she had seen women like this, women who relished all things that had to do with death, official consolers who let no one trespass on their self-appointed duties.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

In this union of the working and the thinking classes, the refinements of life, those things which adorn, and beautify it, take their true place as consolers and soothers of the care-worn and toil-wearied mind.

From Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest by McIntosh, Maria J. (Maria Jane)

Shelf after shelf stretched across the long wall, with its company of mute consolers whose master was no more.

From At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern by Reed, Myrtle