assuagements

Noun

assuagement (countable and uncountable, plural assuagements)

1. 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

   Synonyms:

   alleviation

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.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

   Synonyms:

   relief, respite

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.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