Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who consoles or comforts.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who consoles or comforts.

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  • noun One who consoles or comforts.

Etymologies

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Latin

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Examples

  • First to appear in print was the motet Desolatorum consolator in Petrucci's Motetti de la corona, libro primo 1514.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009

  • * Jam divini amor Numinis, Patris omnipotentis prolisque beatissimae sancta communicatio; omnipotens Paraclete Spiritus; moerentium consolator clementissime, jam cordis mei penetralibus potenti illabere virtute, et tenebrosa quaeque laris neglecti latibula, corusci luminis fulgore pius habitator laetifica, tuique roris abundantia, longo ariditatis marcentia squalore, visitando fecunda.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • [132] "Jam divini amor Numinis, Patris omnipotentis prolisque beatissimae sancta communicatio; omnipotens Paraclete Spiritus; moerentium consolator clementissime, jam cordis mei penetralibus potenti illabere virtute, et tenebrosa quaeque laris neglecti latibula, corusci luminis fulgore pius habitator laetifica, tuique roris abundantia, longo ariditatis marcentia squalore, visitando fecunda."

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • The Hebrew name, probably in the intensive form, Nahhum, signifies primarily "full of consolation or comfort", hence "consoler" (St. Jerome, consolator), or "comforter".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Kyrie, expurgator scelerum et largitor gratitæ; quæsumus propter nostrasoffensas noli nos relinquere, O consolator dolentis animæ, eleyson (ed. Burntisland, 929).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • * Nunquam a dextera mea liber iste discedit. nam si agnoscis, ecce — et aperit librum qui veste latebat — en ipsum! hic mihi, inquit, terra ac mari comes, hic in peregrinatione tota socius et consolator fuit. sed referam tibi sane, quo liber iste penetrarit, et quam nullus fere in orbe terrarum locus sit, ubi non materia tam felicis historiae pervulgata teneatur. primus eum Romanae urbi vir studiossimus tui

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

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