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assuagement

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11 lettersPronunciation /əˈsweɪd͡ʒmənt/Part of speech nounSorted aaeegmnsstuStarts with AEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced

Word origin

From assuage + -ment.

Used in a sentence

  • I had thought two years ago that sex was simply a sensuous craving, an appetite needing assuagement and trailing with it a sense of beauty.
  • So all that night they paſt in great diſeaſe, / Till that the morning, bringing earely light / To guide mens labours, brought them alſo eaſe, / And ſome aſſwagement of their painefull plight.
  • This was the sole consideration, that afforded any degree of assuagement to her sufferings.

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