"assuagement" meaning in English

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        "The action of assuaging; appeasement."
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          "_dis1": "92 3 5",
          "code": "mi",
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          "sense": "action of assuaging; appeasement",
          "word": "mamahutanga"
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          "text": "Writing, it was like a heavenly balm, it was like the flowing out of deep waters, it was like the lifting of a load from the spirit; it brought with it a sense of relief, of assuagement.",
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          "ref": "1959, Mervyn Peake, chapter 34, in Titus Alone, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode",
          "text": "He leaned forward pressing the tightened muscles below his ribs and then began to rock back and forth, like a pendulum. So regular was the rocking that it would seem that no assuagement of grief could result from so mechanical a rhythm.",
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