assuage
verb (used with object)
assuagement
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a word derived from
assuage.
Example Sentences
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For Hamlet, Sanders represents an assuagement of the stereotypes of what Black men can to do achieve success.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
It used, as foils, those landscapes of assuagement and the way they morphed over the decades to match the times.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 5, 2021
But she offered oddly little direct assuagement to the unsettled working class that still craves her assurance.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2016
Form, in other words, allows him to draw some assuagement from the very source of the agony itself.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2010
He looked forward to companionship with her in the years to come, and thanked Providence for this assuagement of past loneliness and sorrow.
From The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service by Marvin Hill Dana
