"dolorifuge" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: dolorifuges [plural]
Etymology: From Latin dolor + -fuge. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|la:dolor|-fuge}} Latin dolor + -fuge Head templates: {{en-noun}} dolorifuge (plural dolorifuges)
  1. Something which mitigates or removes grief.

Inflected forms

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          "text": "The children, who had made use of this idea of Tess being taken up by their wealthy kinsfolk (as they imagined the other family to be) as a species of dolorifuge after the death of the horse, began to cry at Tess's reluctance, and teased and reproached her for hesitating.",
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