"assuasive" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "From assuage (“to relieve, soothe”) on the model of persuasive.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more assuasive",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most assuasive",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "assuasively"
        },
        {
          "word": "assuasiveness"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1713, Alexander Pope, Ode for Musick, London: Bernard Lintott, pages 2–3:",
          "text": "If in the Breast tumultuous Joys arise,\nMusick her soft, assuasive Voice applies;\nOr when the Soul is press’d with Cares\nExalts her in enlivening Airs.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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?”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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,",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Mild, soothing."
      ],
      "id": "en-assuasive-en-adj-OkMsHdfz",
      "links": [
        [
          "Mild",
          "mild"
        ],
        [
          "sooth",
          "sooth"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "assuasive"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From assuage (“to relieve, soothe”) on the model of persuasive.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "assuasives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1808, Thomas Coke, chapter 1, in A History of the West Indies, volume 1, Liverpool, page 65:",
          "text": "[…] the heat of the sun operates in all its vigour, without an assuasive to mitigate its force.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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"
        },
        {
          "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"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Anything that soothes."
      ],
      "id": "en-assuasive-en-noun-t-fHVjTU",
      "links": [
        [
          "soothe",
          "soothe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Anything that soothes."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "assuasive"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "assuasively"
    },
    {
      "word": "assuasiveness"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From assuage (“to relieve, soothe”) on the model of persuasive.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more assuasive",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most assuasive",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1713, Alexander Pope, Ode for Musick, London: Bernard Lintott, pages 2–3:",
          "text": "If in the Breast tumultuous Joys arise,\nMusick her soft, assuasive Voice applies;\nOr when the Soul is press’d with Cares\nExalts her in enlivening Airs.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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?”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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,",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Mild, soothing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Mild",
          "mild"
        ],
        [
          "sooth",
          "sooth"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "assuasive"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From assuage (“to relieve, soothe”) on the model of persuasive.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "assuasives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1808, Thomas Coke, chapter 1, in A History of the West Indies, volume 1, Liverpool, page 65:",
          "text": "[…] the heat of the sun operates in all its vigour, without an assuasive to mitigate its force.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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"
        },
        {
          "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"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Anything that soothes."
      ],
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        [
          "soothe",
          "soothe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Anything that soothes."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "assuasive"
}