dolorifuge

English

Etymology

From Latin dolor +‎ -fuge.

Noun

dolorifuge (plural dolorifuges)

1. Something which mitigates or removes grief.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 86:

     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.