solatium

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Synonyms: amends, restitution, redress, compensation, recompense, damages, solatium, repayment, atonement, indemnification, indemnity.

From Washington Times • Nov. 12, 2021

No: Travers hasn't been running around and finding me a better-paid job as a solatium.

From Foe-Farrell by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Onyway, Deacon, ye’d put your ill-gotten gains to a right use; they might come by the wind, but they wouldna gang wi’ the water; and that’s aye a solatium, as we say.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Stevenson, Robert Louis

A dozen commonplace legs were offered the dog; it might have tasted the lot and procured no more pother than the passing of a few shillings, the solatium of a pair of trousers or so.

From The Happy Warrior by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)

Perhaps Jimmy himself would not care much about such a solatium.

From Quisanté by Hope, Anthony