tranquillizing

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He wondered whether lithium could have the same tranquillizing effect on his patients.

From Nature • Aug. 25, 2019

Aunt Claudine, on the other hand, in spite of the difference of years, could be a young person's friend, and Manna felt the tranquillizing effect of this friendship.

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold

She loved the retirement of a country life, and found in it, in her own language, “a wonderful effect in tranquillizing the spirit and calming every unpleasant emotion.”

From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

So far from tranquillizing the Bohemian people, this led to an insurrection of the Hussites in that country, the first of a series of religious wars that inaugurated the break-up of Latin Christendom.

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

These agencies tend to the tranquillization of society; and as a tranquillizing influence, they tend to the security of property.

From The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. by Weylland, John Matthias