dolorifuge

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dolorifuge

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From Latin dolor + -fuge.

noun dolorifuges

Something which mitigates or removes grief. 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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@misc{dolorifuge_2026,
  title = {dolorifuge},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dolorifuge},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}