assuagement

For Hamlet, Sanders represents an assuagement of the stereotypes of what Black men can to do achieve success.

“That you have so much passion in your body,” she said insolently, “that you seek assuagement thus. Your husband would give much to know where you have been tonight.”

It used, as foils, those landscapes of assuagement and the way they morphed over the decades to match the times.

But she offered oddly little direct assuagement to the unsettled working class that still craves her assurance.

Is thy slavery so hard, are thy sorrows beyond assuagement?