"consolatory" meaning in English

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          "word": "consolatorily"
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          "ref": "1523, John Skelton, “The quene of fame to dame Pallas”, in A ryght delectable treatyse upon a goodly garlande or chapelet of laurell:",
          "text": "[…] where in he reporteth of the coragius\nwordes that were moch consolatory […]",
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          "text": "1649, John Donne, Fifty Sermons, London: M.F., J. Marriot and R. Royston, Volume 2, “Sermon XVII. Preached at Lincolns Inne,” p. 140,\nWhere then is the restorative, the consolatory nature of these words? In this, beloved, consists our comfort […]"
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          "text": "“It is singularly reviving after such hurricanes to feel calm return, and from the opening clouds to receive a consolatory gleam, softly testifying that the sun is not quenched.”",
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          "ref": "1964, Hortense Calisher, “A Christmas Carillon”, in Extreme Magic: A Novella and Other Stories, Boston: Little, Brown, page 64:",
          "text": "Supper had been eaten, the turkey had been trussed, the children at last persuaded into their beds. That was the consolatory side of family life, Grorley thought—the long, Olympian codas of the emotions were cut short by the niggling detail.",
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        "Which consoles."
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          "roman": "utešitelen",
          "sense": "which consoles",
          "word": "утешителен"
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          "sense": "which consoles",
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          "sense": "which consoles",
          "word": "consōlātōrius"
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