dolorifuge
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
dolor + -ifuge (“modelled on such words as febrifuge, vermifuge”).
Noun[edit]
dolorifuge (plural dolorifuges)
- Something which mitigates or removes grief.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 86:
- 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.