solatium
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"Or as a solatium, if you fail," remarked the other genially.
From The Crown of Life by George Gissing
The honour of having two men in the eleven was no solatium for the wounded pride of Biffen's, when they considered their great injury.
From Acton's Feud A Public School Story by Frederick Swainson
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
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
A solatium is a Debating Society spree, held in December or January; a gaudeamus is a festival of the same kind, only rather more ambitious, celebrated towards the close of the session.
From The Scarlet Gown being verses by a St. Andrews Man by Robert F. (Robert Fuller) Murray
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
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
