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assuagement

noun as in relief

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Example Sentences

To listen was an infinite assuagement, one that was overpoweringly sweet, and for some moments she almost forgot.

Again a look of complacency, and blessed assuagement, visited the little man.

It not only responded to the ache she felt within herself, but gave a promise of assuagement.

It seemed to her that there could be no assuagement of his misery—that he were better dead.

Chaucer does not endeavour to console him; he knows the only assuagement for such sorrows, and leads him on to speak of the dead.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to assuagement, such as: abatement, alleviation, appeasement, easement, mitigation, and mollification.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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