assuagement

• “In the former, Lucinda asks for fulfillment, enlightenment, and the unnameable assuagement sought by all.”

  The Huffington Post: Joseph Smigelski: Lucinda Williams: She Breaks My Heart

• “I kept apologizing to Chris the day before the party as we worked nonstop to get everything ready, but he was beyond assuagement.”

  Simon & Schuster: Falling Apart in One Piece

• “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

• “Surely the distinction is that Jo Lumley had a deeply personal, and quite selfless, reason for supporting the Gurkhas, and it was a clear cut cause where all decent people would agree with her that the government position was a disgrace, whereas Bono's motive is purely self-promotion and self-guilt assuagement.”

  Campaign journalism

• “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.”

  Forbes: Billionaire Soros To Help Fight Urban Drug Abuse

• “From what regulators have already gathered from Microsoft's latest assuagement, technical support isn't quite what they had in mind.”

  Forbes: People To Watch: March 27-31The Week Ahead: March 27-31

• “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

• “Europe; but HE had felt no assuagement in Italy and France.”

  Swan Song

• “This was the sole consideration, that afforded any degree of assuagement to her sufferings.”

  The Italian

• “Each August, till he was six, he was sent for health, and the assuagement of his hereditary instincts, up to a Scotch shooting, where he carried many birds in a very tender manner.”

  The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays

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