sooth

• And while some parenting techniques walk you through letting babies cry a bit to see if they learn to self-sooth, none of those techniques actually allow the parents to sit on their asses on the couch in the living room watching the newest episodes of "True Beauty." —  misszoot.com
• In Bennison's "theology" he makes it sound like the sacerdotal class is there to sooth, accommodate and mediate competing factions here on earth, in other words to build an "inclusive" church that these days seems to encompass just about everything except orthodox Christianity. —  Midwest Conservative Journal
• And in good sooth, that is much to say! —  Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada
• A Puritan hearthstone--sooth, it must be a goodly place; yet right glad am I that we live beneath the stars, and are still the light free-hearted folk o' Merrymount COSTUMES The costumes are those of the seventeenth-century cavaliers for the Merrymount lads. —  Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
• In sooth, the year in question had been very propitious to the immigrants; who, flocking in from eastern settlements in goodly numbers, were allowed to domiciliate themselves in their new homes, with but few exceptions, entirely unmolested by the savage foe. —  Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life

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