Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Compensation for injured feelings as distinct from financial loss or physical suffering.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Anything that alleviates or compensates for suffering or loss; a compensation; specifically, in Scots law, a sum of money paid, over and above actual damages, to an injured party by the person who inflicted the injury, as a solace for wounded feelings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Anything which alleviates or compensates for suffering or loss; a compensation; esp., an additional allowance, as for injured feelings.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law A form of
compensation foremotional rather thanphysical orfinancial harm
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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His reference to a "solatium" puzzled me, but it did not seem anything of consequence.
The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough
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But so aloof is he from general suspicion, so immune from criticism, so admirable in his management and self-effacement, that for those very words that you have uttered he could hale you to a court and emerge with your year's pension as a solatium for his wounded charac - ter.
Chennai 2010
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He announced a solatium of Rs five lakh each to the next of kin of the deceased and said state authorities will ensure that bodies were transported quickly back to the families of the victims.
Toll climbs to 36 in Kerala boat tragedy, judicial inquiry ordered 2009
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In labore requies, In labor, rest, in aestu temperies in heat, temperance, in fletu solatium. in tears, solace.
Pentecost Novena elena maria vidal 2009
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In labore requies, In labor, rest, in aestu temperies in heat, temperance, in fletu solatium. in tears, solace.
Archive 2009-05-01 elena maria vidal 2009
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He announced a solatium of Rs five lakh each to the next of kin of the deceased and said state authorities will ensure that bodies were transported quickly back to the families of the victims.
Toll climbs to 36 in Kerala boat tragedy, judicial inquiry ordered 2009
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The current Act, in determining the amount of compensation, only took into account the market value, actual financial loss and solatium
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Scio quam vana sit et inefficax humanorum verborum penes afflictos consolatio, nisi verbum Dei audiatur, a quo vita, refrigeratio, solatium, poenitentia.
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Canicularis terras excoquit, et siccat flumina, ipse securus sedet sub arborea fronde, et ad doloris sui solatium, naribus suis gramineas redolet species, pascit oculos herbarum amiena viriditas, aures suavi modulamine demulcet pictarum concentus avium, &c.
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Neutrius se fortunae extremum libenter experturam dixit: sed si necessitas alterius subinde imponeretur, optare se difficilem et adversam: quod in hac nulli unquam defuit solatium, in altera multis consilium, &c. Lod.
pavonine commented on the word solatium
something that eases or makes up for suffering or loss
November 25, 2007