assuagement

NOUN
  1. the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced
    as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief
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How To Use assuagement In A Sentence

  • But thank you for acknowledging that the principle accomplishment of carbon credits is the assuagement of guilt.
  • It is said that they are in flight from an insupportable nervous strain, from which they find temporary assuagement only in sleep.
  • From what regulators have already gathered from Microsoft's latest assuagement, technical support isn't quite what they had in mind. People To Watch: March 27-31The Week Ahead: March 27-31
  • Philanthropy often has merely abstract rewards for the giver: that warm empathetic feeling; an assuagement of theoretical guilt; perhaps even an aggrandized sense of self, as the largesse is doled out. Billionaire Soros To Help Fight Urban Drug Abuse
  • In the former, Lucinda asks for fulfillment, enlightenment, and the unnameable assuagement sought by all. Joseph Smigelski: Lucinda Williams: She Breaks My Heart
  • But that first sweet, awkward kiss offered of her own volition had wiped everything from his mind but the assuagement of his own need. The Count's Blackmail Bargain
  • And if it comes as any assuagement I used to say “For all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents & purposes.” KN | Kitsune Noir » Monopoly Gets A New Look
  • I kept apologizing to Chris the day before the party as we worked nonstop to get everything ready, but he was beyond assuagement. Falling Apart in One Piece
  • Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain.
  • As time went on she grew more and more jealous of him, and more and more certain that, if only she could know what had happened, she would get some ease to her tormented heart and some assuagement of her perfectly natural curiosity.
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