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  • noun The liquefaction of a gel to form a sol

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Examples

  • A debate in a college magazine about a plan to ban funding for the Gay and Lesbian Student Union:I wrote from my recent, real-life experience of growing up with same-sex attraction in solation, loneliness and fear and the liberation I found as part of GLSU.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Joanna Bogle 2007

  • TAFF (a smart boy, of the peat freers, thirty two eleven, looking through the roof towards a relevution of the karmalife order privious to his hoisting of an emergency umberolum in byway of paraguastical solation to the rhyttel in his hedd).

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • With regard to Lady Clementina, this is my con. solation, that I stood not in her way: but your brother never made his addresses to me, till she, on the noblest motives, left him free to clmse the 7iext eligible, as I have reason to think he allowed me to be.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • The only con - solation was that Derek admitted to being just as sore.

    The Summer Girl Boeshaar, Andrea 2003

  • But, knowing that I had deliberately disregarded her summonses, I took the tongue-lashing in silence, and took some con - solation in the fact that she had to crane her neck at an awkward angle to berate me.

    Nerilka's Story McCaffrey, Anne 1986

  • And in this time of Pasque our mother holy church ne doth but joy and maketh solation for the resurrection of Jesu Christ, and therefore is then said: Alleluia, which signifieth joy and consolation, for after that creature hath done penance by virtue of humility in weepings and lamentations he must lead after, joy and very consolation.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900

  • But here also he was afflicted in this his sorrow: of stich con - solation this his day of suffering bereaved him too.

    Sermons, for parochial and domestic use, designed to illustrate and enforce ... Richard Mant 1813

  • The Queen immediately hastened to Mon-Bijou; and what de - solation was there visible I never beheld any thing like it: indeed, I think Jerusalem, after its siege and capture, could not have presented such another scene.

    Memoirs of Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina : princess royal of Prussia, margravine of Bareith, sister of Frederick the Great 1812

  • Its tendency to promote human happiness, and its sovereign eiBcaey to tranquillize the mind and administer con - solation 'under afflictions, disappointments, and trials.

    Memoirs of the Life of Martha Laurens Ramsay: With an Appendix Containing Extracts from Her ... Martha Laurens Ramsay , David Ramsay, Henry Laurens 1812

  • There is, however, in the distressing account which you give of yourself, one circum - stance, from which my heart extracts much con - solation.

    Memoirs of the political and private life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont Hardy, Francis, 1751-1812 1812

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