assuasive

== English == === Etymology === From assuage (“to relieve, soothe”) on the model of persuasive. === Adjective === assuasive (comparative more assuasive, superlative most assuasive) Mild, soothing. ==== Derived terms ==== assuasively assuasiveness === Noun === assuasive (plural assuasives) (archaic) Anything that soothes. 1817, Richard Yates, The Basis of National Welfare, London: F. C. and J. Rivington et al., § 9, p. 112,[5] the bland, the courteous, the truly Christian assuasives of friendly attention 1908, Mary Virginia Terhune (as Marion Harland), The Housekeeper’s Week, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Chapter 23, p. 312,[6] Nature, as the laity may know it, is a vast pharmacopœia of assuasives and curatives