assuagement /əˈsweɪd͡ʒmənt/ noun3 •The action of assuaging; appeasement.I had thought two years ago that sex was simply a sensuous craving, an appetite needing assuagement and trailing with it a sense of beauty. — 1926 •The condition of being assuaged.So all that night they past in great disease, / Till that the morning, bringing earely light / To guide mens labours, brought them also ease, / And some asswagement of their painefull plight. — 1596 •An assuaging medicine or application.Far down below the Christian captives pine / In dungeon depths, and whoso dares to bring / Assuagements for their wounds, or food, or wine, / Must brave the fiercest vengeance of the king. — 1836 formsassuagements
