adj
Meaning 1
Mild, soothing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
assuasive
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noun
Meaning 2
Anything that soothes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Examples
- 1817, Richard Yates, The Basis of National Welfare, London: F. C. and J. Rivington et al., § 9, p. 112, the bland, the courteous, the truly Christian assuasives of friendly attention
- 1908, Mary Virginia Terhune (as Marion Harland), The Housekeeper’s Week, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Chapter 23, p. 312, Nature, as the laity may know it, is a vast pharmacopœia of assuasives and curatives
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adjective satellite
Meaning 3
freeing from fear and anxiety
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: soothing
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History
Etymology
From assuage (“to relieve, soothe”) on the model of persuasive.