soothing
adjective
that soothes.
soothingness
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a word derived from
soothing.
Example Sentences
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Coolness and soothingness dropped on her as a balm from the great light, and she gazed on it murmuring, as in a memory: Shall I counsel the moon in her ascending?
From The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 1 by George Meredith
Coolness and soothingness dropped on her as a balm from the great light, and she gazed on it murmuring, as in a memory: Shall I counsel the moon in her ascending?
From Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith by George Meredith
In all this there is soothingness, indeed, but no slumberous monotony; for Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer.
From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum
Coolness and soothingness dropped on her as a balm from the great light, and she gazed on it murmuring, as in a memory: Shall I counsel the moon in her ascending?
From The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete by George Meredith
In all this there is soothingness indeed, but no slumberous monotony; for Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
