assuagement

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The action of assuaging

   The action of assuaging; appeasement.

   • I had thought two years ago that sex was simply a sensuous craving, an appetite needing assuagement and trailing with it a sense of beauty.
2. 2

   The condition of being assuaged.

   • So all that night they paſt in great diſeaſe, / Till that the morning, bringing earely light / To guide mens labours, brought them alſo eaſe, / And ſome aſſwagement of their painefull plight.
   • This was the sole consideration, that afforded any degree of assuagement to her sufferings.
   • Writing, it was like a heavenly balm, it was like the flowing out of deep waters, it was like the lifting of a load from the spirit; it brought with it a sense of relief, of assuagement.
3. 3

   An assuaging medicine or application.

   • Far down below the Christian captives pine / In dungeon depths, and whoso dares to bring / Assuagements for their wounds, or food, or wine, / Must brave the fiercest vengeance of the king.

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