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утешение
Spanish
consolación

Type of ceremonial oratory, typically used rhetorically to comfort mourners at funerals.

утешение
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The senators being in their places, Tibe'rius, on whom that care devolved, pronounced a consolatory oration.
Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome / ...
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He also translated Grotius's consolatory oration to his father, with epitaphs; and also his Catechism into English verse.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volum...
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The Consolatio has been put down as late as the 15th century as the work of an Italian imitator, there being no MSS.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28