The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assuagement \As*suage"ment\, n. [OF. assouagement, asuagement.] Mitigation; abatement.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The action of assuage; appeasement. 2 The condition of being assuaged. 3 An assuaging medicine or application.
WordNet
n. the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced; "as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief" [syn: relief, alleviation]
Usage examples of "assuagement".
Any assuagement Synnovea might have derived from a warm greeting was abruptly replaced with a morbid sense of gloom.
Necessary pleasures and all the activity of the senses it will employ only for medicament and assuagement lest its work be impeded.
Necessary pleasures and all the activity of the senses it will employ only for medicament and assuagement lest its work be impeded.
On the Wednesday and Thursday he seemed to take some interest in his bags and portmanteaus, and began himself to look after those assuagements of the toils of travel which are generally dear to young men.
Now, these persistent assuagements of his misery, and lightenings of his load, had by this time begun to have the effect of making Mr.
Should it not now, in all propriety, take wing and seek the assuagements of its hunger elsewhere, in the rich feasts offered by the delta?
For the assuagement whereof, I have good hope that, if you will unite with me, I shall find means most sweet and delightsome.