"assuasive" meaning in All languages combined

See assuasive on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more assuasive [comparative], most assuasive [superlative]
Etymology: From assuage (“to relieve, soothe”) on the model of persuasive. Head templates: {{en-adj}} assuasive (comparative more assuasive, superlative most assuasive)
  1. Mild, soothing. Derived forms: assuasively, assuasiveness
    Sense id: en-assuasive-en-adj-OkMsHdfz

Noun [English]

Forms: assuasives [plural]
Etymology: From assuage (“to relieve, soothe”) on the model of persuasive. Head templates: {{en-noun}} assuasive (plural assuasives)
  1. (archaic) Anything that soothes. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-assuasive-en-noun-t-fHVjTU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 65 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 33 67 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 30 70

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1713, Alexander Pope, Ode for Musick, London: Bernard Lintott, pages 2–3:",
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          "ref": "1854, Charles Dickens, “Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 282,”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "“[…] Perhaps,” said Bounderby, starting with all his might at his so quiet and assuasive father-in-law, “you know where your daughter is at the present time?”",
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          "ref": "1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 12, in Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret, Boston: James R. Osgood, published 1883, page 152:",
          "text": "The medicine, whatever it might be, had the merit, rare in doctor’s stuff, of being pleasant to take, assuasive of thirst, and imbued with a hardly perceptible fragrance,",
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          "ref": "1965, Robert Wilder, chapter 1, in Fruit of the Poppy,, New York: Putnam, page 16:",
          "text": "The stuff gagged him but he forced it down. This wasn’t smart but the alcohol had an assuasive effect.",
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          "text": "1817, Richard Yates, The Basis of National Welfare, London: F. C. and J. Rivington et al., § 9, p. 112,\nthe bland, the courteous, the truly Christian assuasives of friendly attention"
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          "text": "1908, Mary Virginia Terhune (as Marion Harland), The Housekeeper’s Week, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Chapter 23, p. 312,\nNature, as the laity may know it, is a vast pharmacopœia of assuasives and curatives"
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