solatium

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

From Washington Times • Nov. 12, 2021

As a solatium he was allowed to rule over the town of Guadix, whither he retired.

From Southern Spain by Calvert, A. F. (Albert Frederick)

It means "comfort in sorrow," and in Scotch law it denotes a compensation for wounded feelings, solatium, moral and intellectual damages in short.

From The Book of Delight and Other Papers by Abrahams, Israel

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)

These gentlemen were most of them waiting for College livings, to which they were allowed to carry off, as a solatium, some dozens of College port.

From The Victorian Age The Rede Lecture for 1922 by Inge, William Ralph