[f. as prec. + -ING2.] a. Giving relief or mitigation. b. Abating, subsiding.
1651. E. Prestwich, Hippol., 89. Th’ asswaging waters left behind The Earth with slime and rubbish clad.
1801. Southey, Thalaba, I. vii. She had not wept till that assuaging prayer.
1879. Geo. Eliot, Theo. Such, ii. 36. To raise the assuaging reflection.
