asuagement (1113-19)

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asuagement (1113-19)

  FEW:  *suaviare 12,325a Gdf:  assouagement 1,450c GdfC: TL: assoagement 1,599 DEAF:  soagier (assoagement)  DMF:  assouagement  TLF: OED:  assuagement n.  MED: DMLBS:
assuagement;  aswagement  

s.

1alleviation, relief
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Naient a la gent n’est asuagement  298
( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiin )  Asuagat le mal de li […] Tut si e mut plus ducement Li fist ele asuagement  118.228
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Sun office fist mult humblement, Kar ore quide aver aswagement  68.45
fig.(source of) relief
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  (this story:) As tristes est confort e joie as dolerus, E assuagement al mal as amerus  15
rasuagement 
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