Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of assuaging; mitigation; abatement.
- noun An alleviative; a sedative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Mitigation; abatement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The action of
assuaging ;appeasement . - noun The condition of being assuaged.
- noun An assuaging
medicine orapplication .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced
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Examples
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I kept apologizing to Chris the day before the party as we worked nonstop to get everything ready, but he was beyond assuagement.
Falling Apart in One Piece Stacy Morrison 2010
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And if it comes as any assuagement I used to say “For all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents & purposes.”
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In the former, Lucinda asks for fulfillment, enlightenment, and the unnameable assuagement sought by all.
Joseph Smigelski: Lucinda Williams: She Breaks My Heart 2010
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I kept apologizing to Chris the day before the party as we worked nonstop to get everything ready, but he was beyond assuagement.
Falling Apart in One Piece Stacy Morrison 2010
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I kept apologizing to Chris the day before the party as we worked nonstop to get everything ready, but he was beyond assuagement.
Falling Apart in One Piece Stacy Morrison 2010
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Surely the distinction is that Jo Lumley had a deeply personal, and quite selfless, reason for supporting the Gurkhas, and it was a clear cut cause where all decent people would agree with her that the government position was a disgrace, whereas Bono's motive is purely self-promotion and self-guilt assuagement.
Campaign journalism 2009
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From what regulators have already gathered from Microsoft's latest assuagement, technical support isn't quite what they had in mind.
People To Watch: March 27-31The Week Ahead: March 27-31 Forbes.com staff 2006
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Philanthropy often has merely abstract rewards for the giver: that warm empathetic feeling; an assuagement of theoretical guilt; perhaps even an aggrandized sense of self, as the largesse is doled out.
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But that first sweet, awkward kiss offered of her own volition had wiped everything from his mind but the assuagement of his own need.
The Count's Blackmail Bargain Craven, Sara 2005
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Europe; but HE had felt no assuagement in Italy and France.
Swan Song 2004
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