Both Uses of
assuage
in
Walden
- Over this great expanse there is no disturbance but it is thus at once gently smoothed away and assuaged, as, when a vase of water is jarred, the trembling circles seek the shore and all is smooth again.
Chpt 9 *assuaged = soothed
- But history must not yet tell the tragedies enacted here; let time intervene in some measure to assuage and lend an azure tint to them.†
Chpt 14assuage = soothe
Definition:
to soothe (make something less unpleasant or frightening)