0 something, for example money, that is given to someone to make them feel better when they have suffered in some way:
The actress was awarded solatium of £10,000 for the false suggestion that she can't sing.
Prior to that change, a relation of a deceased person claimed solatium, which was no more than pain and suffering.
I said it was merely a solatium, a partial protection.
The loss of society award was conceived as being different from the traditional concept of solatium—for pain and suffering—for dependants.
He can take solatium from the fact that he is not the only one.
There is also the question of solatium for the loss of a close relative.
The payment might simply be for solatium, injuries that they had suffered—for example, payment to a child for limbs that had been broken.
