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assuagement|əˈsweɪdʒmənt|
Also 6 aswage-, 6–7 asswage-.
[a. OF. a(s)souagement: see assuage v. and -ment.]
1. The action of assuaging; the condition of being assuaged; mitigation, alleviation, relief, abatement.
1561T. N[orton] Calvin's Inst. iii. 213 Y⊇ faithfull haue aswagement of their sorrowe, in considering the purpose of god. 1638Baker Lett. Balzac (1654) IV. 52 To read there the continuation of your sickness, could not..be any asswagement of mine. 1871Browning Balaust. 555 And for assuagement of these evils—nought!
2. An assuaging medicine or application, a lenitive, sedative, alleviative.
1599A. M. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physic 255/1 [Recipe for] An assuagement for the Face. 1833I. Taylor Fanat. v. 116 Assuagements of the dread which the belief in purgatory inspired. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. I. ii. vi. 78 Medicinal assuagements, from the Lübeck ship-stores. |