assuasive

adj 1noun 1

Definitions

adj

1

Mild, soothing.

If in the Breast tumultuous Joys arise, Musick her soft, assuasive Voice applies; Or when the Soul is press’d with Cares Exalts her in enlivening Airs.

“[…] 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?”

noun

1

Anything that soothes.

[…] the heat of the sun operates in all its vigour, without an assuasive to mitigate its force.

1817, Richard Yates, The Basis of National Welfare, London: F. C. and J. Rivington et al., § 9, p. 112, the bland, the courteous, the truly Christian assuasives of friendly attention

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