consolatory

Etymology

adj

1. Which consoles.
   […] where in he reporteth of the coragius wordes that were moch consolatory […] 1523, John Skelton, “The quene of fame to dame Pallas”, in A ryght delectable treatyse upon a goodly garlande or chapelet of laurell
   1649, John Donne, Fifty Sermons, London: M.F., J. Marriot and R. Royston, Volume 2, “Sermon XVII. Preached at Lincolns Inne,” p. 140, Where then is the restorative, the consolatory nature of these words? In this, beloved, consists our comfort […]
   The punishment of real tyrants is a noble and awful act of justice; and it has with truth been said to be consolatory to the human mind. 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, London: J. Dodsley, page 123
   Supper had been eaten, the turkey had been trussed, the children at last persuaded into their beds. That was the consolatory side of family life, Grorley thought—the long, Olympian codas of the emotions were cut short by the niggling detail. 1964, Hortense Calisher, “A Christmas Carillon”, in Extreme Magic: A Novella and Other Stories, Boston: Little, Brown, page 64

noun

1. That which consoles; a speech or writing intended for consolation.
   1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, lines 658-662, in Paradise Regain’d […] to which is added Samson Agonistes, London: John Starkey, pp. 43-44, Consolatories writ With studied argument, and much perswasion sought Lenient of grief and anxious thought, But with' afflicted in his pangs thir sound Little prevails,