Both Uses of
assuage
in
Beowulf - (translated by: Gummere)
- III THUS seethed unceasing the son of Healfdene with the woe of these days; not wisest men assuaged his sorrow; too sore the anguish, loathly and long, that lay on his folk, most baneful of burdens and bales of the night.†
assuaged = soothed
- To Eastern Danes had the valiant Geat his vaunt made good, all their sorrow and ills assuaged, their bale of battle borne so long, and all the dole they erst endured pain a-plenty.†
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Definition:
to soothe (make something less unpleasant or frightening)