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CONSOLATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of consoling; giving relief in affliction
Example:
his presence was a consolation to her
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("consolation" is a kind of...):
ministration; relief; succor; succour (assistance in time of difficulty)
Derivation:
console (give moral or emotional strength to)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment
Example:
second place was no consolation to him
Synonyms:
consolation; solace; solacement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("consolation" is a kind of...):
comfort (a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "consolation"):
cold comfort (very limited consolation or empathy)
bright side; silver lining (a consoling aspect of a difficult situation)
Derivation:
console (give moral or emotional strength to)
Context examples:
Is your loss such as leaves no opening for consolation?
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
An excellent consolation in its way, said Elizabeth, but it will not do for us.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It was because I had already chosen my place of concealment; and if I could not see my boy, it was, at least, some consolation to know that he was near me.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The man breathed an unconscious sigh of relief, then laughed defiantly, and said, "Thin I'm thinkin' the damn bunk won't be achin' me back anny more, an' that's a consolation."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I shall try to save him from it; but it may be even a consolation and a help to him—terrible though it be and awful in its consequences—to know for certain that his eyes and ears and brain did not deceive him, and that it is all true.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It was thought that she could hardly live a few hours, but it would be a great consolation to her to see an English doctor, and, if I would only return, etc. The good Steiler assured me in a postscript that he would himself look upon my compliance as a very great favour, since the lady absolutely refused to see a Swiss physician, and he could not but feel that he was incurring a great responsibility.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed naturally into pity and contempt as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century; and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
She could go there after anything unpleasant below, and find immediate consolation in some pursuit, or some train of thought at hand.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Yet do not suppose, because I complain a little or because I can conceive a consolation for my toils which I may never know, that I am wavering in my resolutions.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I am sure it was a consolation to you.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
