dolorifuge

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noun

Something which mitigates or removes grief.

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Meanings

noundolorifuge (plural dolorifuges)

plural dolorifuges

  1. 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.

    1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 86

Origin

From Latin dolor + -fuge.

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APA

dolorifuge. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dolorifuge

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“dolorifuge.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dolorifuge. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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