Comfort or consolation in a time of loneliness or distress.
You cannot put a monetary value on emotional solace.
A source of comfort or consolation.
September 25, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion.
From Old French solas, from Latin sōlācium (“consolation”), root from Proto-Indo-European *selh₂- (“mercy, comfort”).
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To allay or assuage.
To take comfort; to be cheered.
But one thing to reioyce and ſolace in, And cruell death hath catcht it from my ſight.