Consolatory is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONSOLATORY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Milton) a message of comfort
• That which consoles; a speech or writing intended for consolation.
ADJECTIVE:
• comforting
• Of a consoling or comforting nature.
• affording comfort or solace
• giving or bringing consolation; the comfort received by a person after a loss or disappointment.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or an instance of consoling; the state of being console; comfort

Words related to CONSOLATORY

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How to use CONSOLATORY in a sentence

• To find friends to our cause rising up from a quarter where we expected scarcely anything but opposition, was very consolatory and encouraging.
• The second was no other than the young French governess, Mademoiselle de Barras, in whose ready sympathy and consolatory counsels she found no small happiness.
• The words that came from the minister were always of a consolatory kind.
• Here was a consolatory thought for one who was himself a failure.
• I am very much pleased with a Consolatory Letter of Phalaris, to one who had lost a Son that was a young Man of great Merit.
• He sat beside his daughter, with her thin fingers clasped in his, and spoke to her on every consolatory topic that suggested itself.
• In point of fact Katherine had done nothing of the kind, but it sounded better so, he thought, and gave a consolatory touch to the whole.
• I felt that an effort was necessary, and, with some difficulty, addressed a few cheering and consolatory phrases to the miserable creature I had undertaken to support.
• There is not much that we should call doctrine, no pensive or consolatory teaching, no appeal to souls in the modern sense.
• I only long, if it were possible to me, to help in satisfying the need of those who want a reason for living in the absence of what has been called consolatory belief.
• If you have but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century in them, rather than turn slave to the booksellers.
• Its repose alone afforded a consolatory contrast to the turbulent pleasure of the great world.
• For the same reason, London, which appears an inexhaustible reservoir of concealment to the majority of mankind, brought no such consolatory sentiment to my mind.
• This consolatory idea did not quit us an instant, and we spoke of it frequently.
• No man could be more sensible than he was of the consolatory, fortifying influence of the Christian religion in sustaining the mind in adversity, poverty, and age.
• No wonder if, when these rejoicings were called to mind, it was impossible to entertain the faith which would have been most consolatory.
• He was cheerless and melancholy, and the association of a warm, well-meaning spirit had something consolatory in it.
• None of these consolatory thoughts came to him in the contemplation of his present purpose.
• So he died, having released from an unjust sentence the poor wretch who at Whalley Range had suffered for his crime, and offering up a consolatory prayer for all mankind.
• As I have grown older I have also found it consolatory to remark how the culture of vigorous, capable men has not seldom been acquired remarkably late in life.
• Langhope was beginning to find his charming friend less consolatory than usual.
• Genji then left her to receive his friends, who, however, did not remain long, leaving the mansion after a short conversation of a consolatory nature.
• She worked at it harder than most men work at their trades, and let us hope that the profits were consolatory.
• She was subdued and consolatory, she waited upon him, moved away a screen that intercepted the fire, remarked that he looked very tired, and rang for some tea.
• They mocked her and she rebuked them, a circumstance they must have found consolatory.
• The truest religion would, in many points, not be comprehended by the ignorant, nor consolatory to them, nor guiding and supporting for them.
• To find friends to our cause rising up from a quarter, where we expected scarcely any thing but opposition, was very consolatory and encouraging.
• I have received a very friendly and consolatory letter from Mrs.
• Yet I have just written a long consolatory letter to Mrs.
• This may be so much the case, that all her consolatory offices may not be able to get the better of his grief.
• We have seen it to be both encouraging and consolatory.
• I have sought and found tranquillity and courage in my former consolatory faith.

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