Also 6 aswage-, 6–7 asswage-. [a. OF. a(s)souagement: see ASSUAGE v. and -MENT.]

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  1.  The action of assuaging; the condition of being assuaged; mitigation, alleviation, relief, abatement.

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1561.  T. N[orton], Calvin’s Inst., III. 213. Ye faithfull haue aswagement of their sorrowe, in considering the purpose of god.

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1638.  Baker, Lett. Balzac (1654), IV. 52. To read there the continuation of your sickness, could not … be any asswagement of mine.

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1871.  Browning, Balaust., 555. And for assuagement of these evils—nought!

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  2.  An assuaging medicine or application, a lenitive, sedative, alleviative.

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1599.  A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physic, 255/1. [Recipe for] An assuagement for the Face.

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1833.  I. Taylor, Fanat., v. 116. Assuagements of the dread which the belief in purgatory inspired.

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1858.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., I. II. vi. 78. Medicinal assuagements, from the Lübeck ship-stores.

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