dolorifuge

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Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

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"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."

From Latin dolor + -fuge.

dolorifuges (plural)

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