solatium

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A solatium is a Debating Society spree, held in December or January; a gaudeamus is a festival of the same kind, only rather more ambitious, celebrated towards the close of the session.

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  1. noun Law Compensation for injured feelings as distinct from financial loss or physical suffering.

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  • • Even the cash compensation affected seems to be high to an outsider - Rs 6 to 9 lakh per acre as basic price and 9 to 13 lakh per acre paid price with solatium etc. —  Kafila
  • This total award included separate awards for loss of income from the two decedents, pain and suffering by the two decedents, solatium to the immediate family members, and punitive damages. —  Across the Bay
  • He served as chamberlain-physician to three Popes, Clement VI, Innocent VI, and Urban V. We do not know the exact date of his death, but when Pope Urban V went to Rome in 1367, Chauliac was putting the finishing touches on his "Chirurgia Magna," which, as he tells us, was undertaken as a solatium senectutis_--a solace in old age. —  Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
  • Forster appointed him, without consulting him, one of his executors, but knowing well that he could rely on his good will, and the legacy no doubt was intended as a solatium for the labour thus enforced. —  John Forster
  • No: Travers hasn't been running around and finding me a better-paid job as a solatium. —  Foe-Farrell
 

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  1. Late Latin sōlācium, sōlātium, compensation, solace, from Latin; see solace.

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  1. Latin, also solacium, consolation, solace: see solace.
 

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/səˈleɪʃiəm/
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