[f. CONSOLE v. + -ER1.] One who consoles; = the earlier CONSOLATOR.
1741. Richardson, Pamela, II. 213. Not a Person in it, but turned … her Consoler.
1746. Melmoth, Pliny, VIII. xix. (R.). I have recourse to my books, as to the sovereign consolers of my sorrows.
1847. Longf., Ev., II. v. Death, the consoler.
1881. Miss Braddon, Asph., II. 113. Playing the unaccustomed part of consoler.
