emollience
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3VERB + EMOLLIENCE
combine
EMOLLIENCE + NOUN
character, peach
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with
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noun
The state or quality of being emollient; soothingness; softness.
The emollience of peach flesh, peach kernel oil, and creamy coconut milk, balanced with soothing chamomile and oat straw, makes this the perfect skin concoction.
TB [Tony Blair] felt we had to combine emollience of tone with the clear drive and direction of continuing reform.
The act of soothing or appeasing; mollification.
When it became clear to Josh that she thought he was a 'dipstick', she tried emollience: 'No, not at all. I just thought maybe you were going on too long. They were all too drunk or stupid to keep up.'
The closing years of "Old Labour" in Britain were years laced with corruption, cynicism, emollience, and drift.
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3The emollience of peach flesh, peach kernel oil, and creamy coconut milk, balanced with soothing chamomile and oat straw, makes this the perfect skin concoction.
WiktionaryTB [Tony Blair] felt we had to combine emollience of tone with the clear drive and direction of continuing reform.
WiktionaryHis behavior was not implausibly assumed to reflect, albeit indirectly, larger elements at work, even if mitigated by the cosmopolitan, patrician emollience of his character, as against the awkward, p
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