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third-person singular simple present asswages, present participle asswaging, simple past and past participle asswaged
Obsolete spelling of assuage quotations examples
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […]
5. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. / 6. Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
Now although it concerns mee to propagate such a belief, as a fit Anodyne to asswage the many Spleens swelling against mee; yet I being ashamed to be wholly without some excuse for so conspicuous an Error, (as my diversion upon the Survey, and my other consequent undertakings was) I must let the world think otherwise, as part of that excuse which I must yet make more compleat, by acquainting you with some other reasons of that Action,.....
1660, William Petty, Reflections upon Ireland, p. 11/12