What people want is comfort, guilt assuagement. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.watchmanmag.com/0406/040607.htm]
Europe; but HE had felt no assuagement in Italy and France. From Wordnik.com. [Swan Song] Reference
No: we must call upon yet another spell if anywhere the assuagement is to be found. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
Oh, la triste histoire! yet who does not at the same time experience its assuagement?. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Fleur got up and sat on the arm of his chair; he had at once a feeling of assuagement. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spoon] Reference
This was the sole consideration, that afforded any degree of assuagement to her sufferings. From Wordnik.com. [The Italian] Reference
They witnessed the fever raging in his blood -- the fever that clamored for assuagement from her. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
In the former, Lucinda asks for fulfillment, enlightenment, and the unnameable assuagement sought by all. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Smigelski: Lucinda Williams: She Breaks My Heart] Reference
In vain Bordine tried to soothe the young man, but he found that a brother's grief was beyond assuagement. From Wordnik.com. [Five Thousand Dollars Reward] Reference
Depression will find assuagement at her local library. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
Influences watch over her, bring her some assuagement. From Wordnik.com. [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I] Reference
The assuagement is still incomplete when our Judiths arrive. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
This channel for the assuagement of his anxieties was closed. From Wordnik.com. [Halcyone] Reference
Would the future Virgil regard her as an assuagement, a balm?. From Wordnik.com. [Sister Teresa] Reference
May good Influences watch over her, bring her some assuagement. From Wordnik.com. [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I]
Again a look of complacency, and blessed assuagement, visited the little man. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Pharisees] Reference
Yours will be a great, consuming passion that knows no limit, no assuagement. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
The interview was certainly not much to the assuagement of the chief's anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [What's Mine's Mine — Complete] Reference
To some women, the knowledge that a thing must be brings assuagement of the nerves. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond] Reference
"Oh, that would be so nice," she murmured with a great sigh of relief and assuagement. From Wordnik.com. [The Descent of Man and Other Stories] Reference
Lilian, to understand a sorrow was to ask herself what she could do for its assuagement. From Wordnik.com. [Denzil Quarrier] Reference
What had at the first suggestion been a terror now grew upon her as an assuagement of pain. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
It not only responded to the ache she felt within herself, but gave a promise of assuagement. From Wordnik.com. [The Dust Flower] Reference
Suffer, that you may drowse thereafter: grill, that you may have a heat on you worth assuagement. From Wordnik.com. [Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett] Reference
These common experiences draw men together in sympathy, unite them in a common purpose of assuagement and help. From Wordnik.com. [George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy] Reference
It might be a voice from heaven, -- some temporary assuagement of this storm of doubt that raged in his breast. From Wordnik.com. [Charlotte's Inheritance] Reference
To listen was an infinite assuagement, one that was overpoweringly sweet, and for some moments she almost forgot. From Wordnik.com. [A Mere Accident] Reference
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