Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
assuagement .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word assuagements.
Examples
-
On the Wednesday and Thursday he seemed to take some interest in his bags and portmanteaus, and began himself to look after those assuagements of the toils of travel which are generally dear to young men.
Ayala's Angel 2004
-
Now, these persistent assuagements of his misery, and lightenings of his load, had by this time begun to have the effect of making Mr. Bounderby softer than usual towards Mrs. Sparsit, and harder than usual to most other people from his wife downward.
Hard Times 2002
-
On the Wednesday and Thursday he seemed to take some interest in his bags and portmanteaus, and began himself to look after those assuagements of the toils of travel which are generally dear to young men.
Ayala's Angel 1993
-
Page 144 the virgin Atalanta in the act of according very curious assuagements to her lover's ardor.
-
This sense of Beauty is something in me which demands not simply gratification but the best and keenest of a sense or continuance of sense impressions, and which refuses coarse quantitative assuagements.
-
For a time the sea proved very beneficial to Kate's health, but the never-ending surprises and expectations she was exposed to finished by so straining and sharpening her nerves that the stupors, the assuagements of drink, became, as it were, a necessary make-weight.
A Mummer's Wife 1892
-
On the Wednesday and Thursday he seemed to take some interest in his bags and portmanteaus, and began himself to look after those assuagements of the toils of travel which are generally dear to young men.
Ayala's Angel 1881
-
On the Wednesday and Thursday he seemed to take some interest in his bags and portmanteaus, and began himself to look after those assuagements of the toils of travel which are generally dear to young men.
Ayala's Angel 1881
-
Now, these persistent assuagements of his misery, and lightenings of his load, had by this time begun to have the effect of making Mr. Bounderby softer than usual towards Mrs. Sparsit, and harder than usual to most other people from his wife downward.
Hard Times 1876
-
Now, these persistent assuagements of his misery, and lightenings of his load, had by this time begun to have the effect of making
Hard Times 1868
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.