[f. prec. + -MENT.] Consoling, consolation.
1797. Mrs. Bennett, Beggar Girl (1813), V. 72. Her soothings and consolements.
1805. Aurora General Advertiser, 12 Nov., 2/2. All the honors, the merits and services, which Irishmen performed and from which as Irish, they derived the only consolements which a subjugated and oppressed people could aspire to.
