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Definition of Assuagement
1. Noun. The feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced. "As he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief"
Definition of Assuagement
1. n. Mitigation; abatement.
Definition of Assuagement
1. Noun. The action of assuaging; appeasement. ¹
2. Noun. The condition of being assuaged. ¹
3. Noun. An assuaging medicine or application. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Assuagement
1. [n -S]
Literary usage of Assuagement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1838)
"... assuagement of grief which sometimes occurs, with the seemingly ultra
affectionate, in this very curious world : uld ..."
2. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1872)
"I will only allude to your discovery—the greatest of all discoveries in modern
times—of the application of chloroform in the assuagement of human suffering. ..."
3. Life Sings a Song: Poems by Samuel Hoffenstein (1916)
"... mine eyes' assuagement; But when I look at them they are not tears, And still
I feel them falling upon the floor of my heart. Sometimes I want to write ..."
4. Word Studies in the New Testament by Marvin Richardson Vincent (1890)
"Also an assuagement or abatement. So Sophocles: " Offspring of the noble, ye are
come as the assuagement of my woes" (" Elect ra," 130). ..."
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