[…] where in he reporteth of the coragius
wordes that were moch consolatory […]

1649, John Donne, Fifty Sermons, London: M.F., J. Marriot and R. Royston, Volume 2, “Sermon XVII. Preached at Lincolns Inne,” p. 140,
Where then is the restorative, the consolatory nature of these words? In this, beloved, consists our comfort […]

The punishment of real tyrants is a noble and awful act of justice; and it has with truth been said to be consolatory to the human mind.

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.

1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, lines 658-662, in Paradise Regain’d […] to which is added Samson Agonistes, London: John Starkey, pp. 43-44,
Consolatories writ
With studied argument, and much perswasion sought
Lenient of grief and anxious thought,
But with' afflicted in his pangs thir sound
Little prevails,

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