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American Heritage Dictionary (1 definition)
- Soothing; calming.
–adjective
Century Dictionary (2 definitions)
- Softening; mitigating; tranquilizing; soothing.
- A soothing medicine or application.
–noun
Wiktionary (1 definition)
- mild, soothing
–adjective
GNU Webster's 1913 (1 definition)
- Mitigating; tranquilizing; soothing.
–adjective
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If chemists have identified substances that have fallen in Europe as sand from African deserts, swept up in African whirlwinds, that's assuasive to all the irritations that occur to those cloistered minds that must repose in the concept of a snug, isolated, little world, free from contact with cosmic wickednesses, safe from stellar guile, undisturbed by inter-planetary prowlings and invasions.
In Parts of Humour, too, she had a manner of blending her assuasive Softness even with the Gay, the Lively, and the Alluring.
In his new position John is apt "to go in shaller cracks all over," unless his feminine trainer has been judicious in the use of lubricants -- assuasive and dissuasive.
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ad- + suasive (sense influenced by assuage).
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