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solatium
[ soh-ley-shee-uhm ]
noun
- something given in compensation for inconvenience, loss, injury, or the like; recompense.
- Law. damages awarded to a plaintiff as compensation for personal suffering or grief arising from an injury.
solatium
/ səʊˈleɪʃɪəm /
noun
- law compensation awarded to a party for injury to the feelings as distinct from physical suffering and pecuniary loss
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Origin of solatium1
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Example Sentences
But, willing as she was to do all this in the future, I soon discovered that she wanted her small solatium in the present.
(c) The Company shall receive as a solatium for the unexpired period of the concession an amount equal to one per cent.
No: Travers hasn't been running around and finding me a better-paid job as a solatium.
Shall we say that you leave Richmond this afternoon with a solatium of five hundred pounds?'
As a solatium to his wounded feelings, he ordered his friends of the Marat Company to get rid of them.
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