(v.) A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; calm; repose
(v.) Exemption from, or cessation of, war with public enemies.
(v.) Public quiet, order, and contentment in obedience to law.
(v.) Exemption from, or subjection of, agitating passions; tranquillity of mind or conscience.
(v.) Reconciliation; agreement after variance; harmony; concord.
(v. t. & i.) To make or become quiet; to be silent; to stop.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(2) We will never give up our hope for peace,” added Netanyahu.
(3) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
(4) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
(5) A number of asylum seekers detained in the family camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests over conditions at the centre.
(6) "We have peace in Sierra Leone now, and Tony Blair made a huge contribution to that," said Warrant Officer Abu Bakerr Kamara.
(7) The prime minister insisted, however, that he and other world leaders were not being stubborn over demands that the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, step down at the end of the peace process.
(8) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
(9) These days, all Russian 15-year-olds study War and Peace as part of their national curriculum.
(10) Sadly, the Jewish fanatic who assassinated Rabin in 1995 achieved his broader aim of derailing the peace train.
(11) Judge John Burgess told the men that their intention was “to do great harm in a peaceful community”.
(12) She also welcomed the wider context of Mohammed's release: "I do believe that this time there will be peace," she said, referring to the talks due to open on Wednesday.
(13) Two days after Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse , published a beautiful essay calling for this year's First World War commemorations to " honour those who died " and "celebrate the peace we now share", Michael Gove has delivered the government's response.
(14) • Mubarak becomes a major mediator in the Arab-Israeli peace process, remaining a consistent US ally bolstered by billions of dollars in American aid.
(15) Laryngo-tracheal traumatisms are not frequent at peace time.
(16) Our later measures – parliament's power to declare peace and war, MPs to be subject to a right to recall, an end to the royal prerogative, an elected Lords – were about a 21st-century democracy, with citizenship to be founded on a new bill of rights and responsibilities and, in time, a written constitution.
(17) "What Russia is doing now in Ukraine threatens peace and security in Europe ," said Nato's secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
(18) He was the peaceful activist whose sudden disappearance into a phalanx of riot police on a Baltimore street sparked a viral panic.
(19) | Mary Dejevsky Read more Third, if that breakthrough can be delivered with good faith on all sides, that could potentially be the basis to revive the Kerry-Lavrov ceasefire , open humanitarian channels into Aleppo, and start the process of negotiating a lasting peace.
(20) Kerry, however, has called on Egypt to respect the right of peaceful protest, including pro-Morsi rallies.
Solace
Definition:
(v. t.) Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief.
(v. t.) Rest; relaxation; ease.
(n.) To cheer in grief or under calamity; to comfort; to relieve in affliction, solitude, or discomfort; to console; -- applied to persons; as, to solace one with the hope of future reward.
(n.) To allay; to assuage; to soothe; as, to solace grief.
(v. i.) To take comfort; to be cheered.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's finding solace, fleeting and fragmentary, and every springy guitar lick is its own benediction," Chinen wrote.
(2) "We gain a little solace from the fact that the high point in Jo's life was her graduation in November when her life was 'perfect'.
(3) That Tsipras felt the need to travel to St Petersburg and seek solace in a meeting with Putin says a lot about this alliance of the aggrieved.
(4) That solace, however, is hard to sustain when a new veil of secrecy is about to be thrown over another element of state power.
(5) Perhaps that is what Sherwood requires to remain in post, but some solace for Tottenham is that they jumped back above Manchester United into sixth place.
(6) In the midday sun, young women and girls around Accra’s Makola market take a break from walking the streets carrying their wares to seek solace under the shade of a tree, napping with their babies in their laps.
(7) Fans of the character should therefore take some solace from McWeeny's gushing review of Man of Steel .
(8) Since his passing, all of us who loved Robin have found some solace in the tremendous outpouring of affection and admiration for him from the millions of people whose lives he touched.
(9) Although Cognitive Self-Control was unrelated to either concurrent or future depression, Solace Seeking significantly buffered the effect of stress in predicting a future diagnosis of depression.
(10) Faced with a violent stepfather and a mother with mental health issues (from whom he is now estranged), he took solace in his teddy bear, Alan Measles.
(11) He was tempted back then, he has said, as Left and Right alike heaped scorn on him for his unstatesmanlike choice of clothing, to seek solace in one of his favourite quotes from Thoreau: 'Beware of all enterprises which require new clothes.'
(12) In describing what so many of us seek in a perfect pub – solace, authenticity and a very real kind of community – he wrote a manifesto that lives down the ages.
(13) After the election, liberal friends drew solace in a shared Facebook story claiming that Barack Obama had somehow saved them from the worst of a Trump administration by permanently protecting the right to an abortion – sadly glossing over the all-important role of the supreme court in such matters.
(14) Some wrote that the letter provides “solace and acceptance” to other victims of violent assault, while former Catholic Herald editor Cristina Odone described it as an “extraordinary lesson in courage from a 20-year-old Oxford undergrad”.
(15) Whereas the panic disorder group used significantly more (p less than 0.001) solacing objects, activities and sounds than normals, the alexithymic subjects used significantly fewer self-solacing strategies (p less than 0.001).
(16) Perhaps he and the many other Chinese dissidents detained in 2014 would find some solace in Ma’s words: “Today is cruel,” the entrepreneur famously said in 2004 .
(17) Growing up on the Norris Green council estate in Liverpool, Duggan, who is now 41, was bullied at home and at school – "I was probably just a bit too sensitive and effeminate for my own good" – and he found solace in the Smiths, particularly in their first couple of albums, when he was 14 or 15.
(18) A sign of solace may have come on Wednesday, when Greece made a €200m repayment to the International Monetary Fund , ahead of a meeting of the eurozone finance ministers on Monday – although this doesn’t mean a breakthrough is imminent.
(19) Sertanejo – Brazilian country music – is king in this area, yet its inhabitants are seeking solace from accordion-led country-pop with power-rock trio Macaco Bong.
(20) I tried to take solace in the fact that he appeared to have managed to escape more or less intact from showbusiness.