solatium
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Strong interest was made in favour of mercy, but the College deprived him of his Fellowship, granting him, not too consistently, a solatium of £300.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury
Onyway, Deacon, ye’d put your ill-gotten gains to a right use; they might come by the wind, but they wouldna gang wi’ the water; and that’s aye a solatium, as we say.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Robert Louis Stevenson
Shall we say that you leave Richmond this afternoon with a solatium of five hundred pounds?'
From The City in the Clouds by C. Ranger Gull
But, willing as she was to do all this in the future, I soon discovered that she wanted her small solatium in the present.
From In Accordance with the Evidence by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
No: Travers hasn't been running around and finding me a better-paid job as a solatium.
From Foe-Farrell by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Petau tells us that he wrote verses to solace the evils of old age— —— Petavius æger Cantabat veteris quærens solatia morbi.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
You ought to have brought the matter before us yourselves: at least, now, support him with the necessary "solatia."
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Thomas Hodgkin
