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Definition of Asswage
1. v. See Assuage.
Definition of Asswage
1. Verb. (obsolete spelling of assuage) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Asswage
1. to assuage [v -SWAGED, -SWAGING, -SWAGES] - See also: assuage
Literary usage of Asswage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations Or Memorials of the Most by Daniel Defoe, Henry Morley (1886)
"I remember my Friend Doctor Heath coming to see me the Week before, told me, he
was sure that the Violence of it would asswage in ..."
2. Lydgate's Siege of Thebes by John Lydgate (1911)
"Gan asswage fui sonë, by processe, ... And howe, by mene / of his gery mood, snd
how 2874. asswage] ..."
3. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... that in their Cottages they might asswage un- tollerable hunger by eating
thereof. A certaine Spaniard (through exceeding hunger) eate his owne brother, ..."
4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"There was not plentie enough of Dormice, or other Mice, or Serpents, or other
wild beasts, to asswage this lamentable famine and unspeakable ..."
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