assuaging
English edit
Verb edit
assuaging
- present participle and gerund of assuage
Noun edit
assuaging (plural assuagings)
- The act of one who assuages.
- 1822, Richard Henry Dana, William Cullen Bryant, The Idle Man, volume 1, numbers 1-4, page 3:
- In our sorrow at the loss of friends, if we shun direct and proffered consolations, we love the assuagings which another's pity administers to us in the gentle tones, mild manners, kind looks, and nameless little notices […]