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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of asswage.

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Examples

  • This, indeed, was some Grief at first; but the next Visit from my Lord with his courtly Behaviour soon asswaged it.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • This, indeed, was some Grief at first; but the next Visit from my Lord with his courtly Behaviour soon asswaged it.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Chichibio perceiving, that his Masters anger was not (as yet) asswaged, and now it stood him upon, to make good his lye; not knowing how he should do it, rode after his Master, fearfully trembling all the way.

    The Decameron 2004

  • And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • "Yet by the helpe of a precious oile, Doctour Russel applyed, ere night his tormenting paine was so wel asswaged that he eate the fish to his supper."

    Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes

  • In the meane season Thrasillus not able to refraine any longer, before Charites had asswaged her dolor, before her troubled mind had pacified her fury, even in the middle of all her griefes, while she tare her haire and rent her garments, demanded her in marriage, and so without shame, he detected the secrets and unspeakeable deceipts of his heart.

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • For verelie king Adelstane after his displeasure was asswaged, and hearing of this miserable end of his brother, sore repented himselfe of his rigour so extended towards him, in so much that he could neuer abide the man that had giuen the information against him, which was his cupbearer, so that on a time as the said cupbearer serued him at the table, and came towards him with

    Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed

  • So that my sorrowing spirites exasperated with an amorous desire and extreame vexation, continually burning in my panting breast, coulde by no meanes bee asswaged, but with supping vp of continuall sobbings, and breathing out of their flying losse.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • In the afternoon, the sea was asswaged, and the wind being at east we set sayle, and stood south and by east, and south southeast as we could.

    Henry Hudson Janvier, Thomas A 1909

  • In the afternoon, the sea was asswaged, and the wind being at east we set sayle, and stood south and by east, and south southeast as we could.

    Henry Hudson A Brief Statement of His Aims and His Achievements 1881

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