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dolorifuges

dolorifuges is the plural of dolorifuge.

Meaning of dolorifuge

Noun

dolorifuge (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

Questions about dolorifuges

What is dolorifuges the plural of?
Dolorifuges is the plural of dolorifuge.

Words near dolorifuges in the dictionary

  1. Dolores County
  2. doloresite
  3. doloriferous
  4. dolorific
  5. dolorifuge
  6. dolorifuges
  7. dolorimeter
  8. dolorimeters
  9. dolorimetric
  10. dolorimetry
  11. dolorite

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