Synonyms for assuagement
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : uh-sweyj, uh-sweyzh |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈsweɪdʒ, əˈsweɪʒ |
Définition of assuagement
Origin :- c.1300, from Anglo-French assuager, Old French assoagier "soften, moderate, alleviate, calm, soothe, pacify," from Vulgar Latin *adsuaviare, from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + suavis "sweet, agreeable" (see sweet). For sound development in French, cf. deluge from Latin diluvium, abridge from abbreviare. Related: Assuaged; assuaging.
- noun relief
- Yours will be a great, consuming passion that knows no limit, no assuagement.
- Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
- They witnessed the fever raging in his blood—the fever that clamored for assuagement from her.
- Extract from : « Heart of the Blue Ridge » by Waldron Baily
- It seemed to her that there could be no assuagement of his misery—that he were better dead.
- Extract from : « When the Cock Crows » by Waldron Baily
- The assuagement is still incomplete when our Judiths arrive.
- Extract from : « The French Revolution » by Thomas Carlyle
- This channel for the assuagement of his anxieties was closed.
- Extract from : « Halcyone » by Elinor Glyn
- Tom was not one who, in a hot moment, for the assuagement of his wrath, would bang down his fist and consign himself to a purpose.
- Extract from : « The Walking Delegate » by Leroy Scott
- Violently will my breast then heave; violently will it blow its storm over the mountains: thus cometh its assuagement.
- Extract from : « Thus Spake Zarathustra » by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The one assuagement for the pain in her own heart seemed to be the alleviation of the pain in other hearts.
- Extract from : « A Manifest Destiny » by Julia Magruder
- From it she had expected not only realization for him, but assuagement of longing for herself; and the latter hadn't come.
- Extract from : « The Letter of the Contract » by Basil King
- The night was passed in great anguish, and the morrow's light brought no assuagement of her pain.
- Extract from : « Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland » by Various
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