consolatory

consolation | American Dictionary

consolation
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˌkɑn·sə'leɪ·ʃən/
something that gives comfort to someone who is sad or disappointed:
[ C ]The main consolation for me was that I wouldn’t have to leave Boston.

Examples of consolation

consolation
Questions of interpretation, and ultimately evaluation, of the texts of death found in poetry, consolation literature, letters, and novels, form the focus of this study.
The orientation of the subject in that way of life is such that a consolation is what religion sees as worthwhile.
But the losing party has no such consolation.
This may be granted, but the intentionalist will derive no consolation.
They do not seek protection and consolation from adults, but they may be resigned and passively agree to everything that is asked of them.
Consolation is not some separable end, something to be bolted on as a consequence of living religiously.
One may only be indulging in rhetoric, the false consolation of empty words that elevate.
Their consolation was not that of innate lawfulness or necessity in history.
Against the subversive function of memory, one must counterpose its consolation.
The consolation of memoirs, however, does not lie in their romance; theirs is not the happy ending.
It often demands painful sacrifices and is far from being a soothing consolation.
For the memorialist, memory is consoling, and he uses its consolation for himself as a tool in the subversion of the memory of others.
Comparative evidence of cognitive empathy per se focuses on apes, using extensive data on consolation behavior.
It is a consolation category for those who "look like nothing," for those who do not look like athletes.
There is, however, some measure of consolation in the fact that there also exists a creative moment in the process of rewriting the self.
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