[f. SOLACE sb.1 + -MENT. So OF. sollace-, soulacement.] Solace, solacing, consolation.
1721. R. Keith, trans. T. à Kempis, Solil. Soul, xviii. 253. Being disappointed in thy outward Solacement.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 545. Discovering daily new sources of solacement we had not discerned before.
1824. Scott, Redgauntlet (1830), II. xix. 214. That … was a solacement of his feelings which was not at the moment to be thought of.
1871. Carlyle, in Mrs. Carlyle’s Lett., I. 370. Rather as in duty bound than with much hope of solacement.
