allayment
Example Sentences
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If I could temporize with my affections Or brew it to a weak and colder palate, The like allayment could I give my grief.
From Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare, William
The like allayment could I give my grief.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
For three long days she hath lain forlorn, Her lips untainted of flesh or corn, For that secret sorrow beyond allayment That steers to the far sad shore of the dead.
From Hippolytus/The Bacchae by Euripides
