assuagement
Syllables: as·suage·ment/əˈsweɪd͡ʒmənt/
assuagement noun: the action of assuaging; appeasement.
Noun
assuagement (countable and uncountable, plural assuagements)
- The action of assuaging; appeasement.
- He many woordes of comfort ſpake her feare away too chace. / But nought hee could perſwade therein too make her like the cace. / This laſt aſſwagement of her greef he added in the end, / Which was the onely thing that made her loving hart too bend.1567, Ovid, “The Eleventh Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC, folio 142, verso, lines 517–520
- [T]he aſſwagement of his [a wise man's] diſcontent conſiſts in two things, formerly preſcribed as remedies againſt corporeall pain; viz. Diverſion of his thoughts from his loſſe, or the cause of it; and an application of them to thoſe things, which he knowes to be gratefull and pleaſant to his mind.1659–1660, Thomas Stanley, “[The Doctrine of Epicurus.] Chap[ter] XXIII. Of Fortitude, against Discontent of Mind.”, in The History of Philosophy, the Third and Last Volume, […], volume III, London...
- Synonyms:
- alleviation
- 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.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 40, page 422
- This was the sole consideration, that afforded any degree of assuagement to her sufferings.1797, Ann Radcliffe, chapter 7, in The Italian, or The Confessional of the Black Penitents, volume II, London: T. Cadell Junior & W. Davies, pages 234–235
- 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.1836, Richard Chenevix Trench, “A Legend of Toledo”, in The Story of Justin Martyr, and Other Poems, 2nd edition, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 175
assuagement meaning in Kannada and Odia
assuagement in Kannada
- ಉಪಶಮನ
assuagement in Odia
- assuagement; abatement; alleviation
- କ୍ଷମା kṣamā
Examples of assuagement in a sentence
- 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.1926, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “§ 7. Empty House.”, in The World of William Clissold: A Novel at a New Angle (ebook no. 1500551h.html)...
- 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.1928, Radclyffe Hall, chapter 7, in The Well of Loneliness, London: Jonathan Cape; republished New York, N.Y.: Covici Friede Publishers...
- So regular was the rocking that it would seem that no assuagement of grief could result from so mechanical a rhythm.1959, Mervyn Peake, chapter 34, in Titus Alone, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
Synonyms of assuagement
Forms of assuagement
| plural | assuagements |
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Origin of assuagement
From assuage + -ment.
Questions about assuagement
- What does assuagement mean?
- Assuagement means the action of assuaging; appeasement.
- What is assuagement in Kannada?
- Assuagement in Kannada is ಉಪಶಮನ. See Assuagement meaning in Kannada.
- How do you use assuagement in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is assuagement?
- Assuagement is a noun.
- How do you pronounce assuagement?
- Assuagement is pronounced /əˈsweɪd͡ʒmənt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of assuagement?
- The plural of assuagement is assuagements.
Words near assuagement in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: assuagement (page history and authors); assuagement (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); କ୍ଷମା (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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