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Definition of Assuaged
1. assuage [v] - See also: assuage
Literary usage of Assuaged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"Are pain and sorrow assuaged by the contemplation of truth ? R. Every pleasure
assuages pain, and therefore the contemplation of truth assuages it, ..."
2. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... Ami the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, Fur the
Thracian ... assuaged ..."
3. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Matthew Paris, Roger (1849)
"The bishop accordingly laid his hands on the diseased part, blessed him, and sent
him away; after which the tumour was so suddenly assuaged, that from that ..."
4. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Roger, Matthew Paris (1849)
"This was accordingly done, and they returned to the king with an enormous booty,
and so his fury was in some measure assuaged. In the same year, Eadward, ..."
5. A Commentary on the Psalms: From Primitive and Mediaeval Writers and from by John Mason Neale, Richard Frederick Littledale (1871)
"offence of Thy servants, and assuaged from Thine indignation mayest cover our sins.
(11.) PSALM LXXXVI. TITLE. A Prayer of David. ARGUMENT. VEN. BEDE. ..."
6. Mores Catholici, Or, Ages of Faith by Kenelm Henry Digby (1846)
"... of Rievaulx, " is a field like that into which holy Isaac went at eventide to
meditate, when Rebecca met him, and assuaged his sorrow. ..."
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