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Assuage vs Decadence - What's the difference?

assuage | decadence |

As a verb assuage

is to lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc).

As a noun decadence is

decadence.

assuage

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Verb

(assuag)
  • To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
  • * Addison
    • Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage .
  • * Burke
    • to assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man
  • * Byron
    • the fount at which the panting mind assuages / her thirst of knowledge
  • * 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
    • I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost.
  • To pacify or soothe (someone).
  • (obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.

    • Derived terms

    * assuagement * assuager

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    decadence

    English

    (wikipedia decadence)

    Noun

  • A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay
  • * 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 35
    • "Stability, however, is not enough. It leads too easily to stagnation, and thence to decadence ."

    Related terms

    * decadent * decay

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