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tasswage

/təˈsweɪd͡ʒ/

tasswage contraction: to assuage.

Contraction

tasswage

  1. (contraction, obsolete, poetic) to assuage
    • Folkes that vse to make great viages, Which vnderfong long trauaile and labour, When thei haue done gret part of their passages Of werines tasswage their rigour, again faintise to find some fauour, loke oft agayne parcell to be releued, to see how much theyr iourney is atcheued.1554, Tottel, page 96
    • I am ashamed herewith all, it maketh me repyne, That Tyndaris (who from the gods doth fetche her noble lygne) Shold gyue the ghost tasswage y wrath of gods and then appeas , Wherby the grekyshe nauye myght haue passage1566, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, translated by John Studley, Studley's Translations of Seneca's Agamemnon and Medea

Questions about tasswage

What does tasswage mean?
Tasswage means to assuage.
What part of speech is tasswage?
Tasswage is a contraction.
How do you pronounce tasswage?
Tasswage is pronounced /təˈsweɪd͡ʒ/.

Words near tasswage in the dictionary

  1. tasso
  2. Tassoan
  3. tassology
  4. Tassone
  5. Tassones
  6. tasswage
  7. tast
  8. tastable
  9. tastably
  10. tastant
  11. tastants

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