Literary notes about Assuasive (AI summary)
In literature, "assuasive" is employed as an adjective to convey a quality of gentle mitigation or soothing relief. Authors use it to describe actions or attributes that lessen pain, calm emotions, or moderate harsh realities—for instance, a judge’s pragmatic approach designed to allay distress ([1]) or the narrator’s deliberate cultivation of calming rhetoric in recounting a turbulent experience ([2]). The term frequently appears alongside synonyms like palliative, mollifying, and remedial, underscoring its role in evoking a sense of quiet alleviation amidst adversity or grief ([3], [4], [5]). This layered usage enriches descriptions of both character traits and atmospheric settings, allowing for a nuanced exploration of emotional and physical ease.
- Judge Gilchrist offered an assuasive: “We must have a telephone wire run from the [118] pulpit to Miss Hester’s room.
— from Mr. Wayt's Wife's Sister by Marion Harland - I now saw that something must be done; so summoning all my most assuasive airs, I related the whole adventure, just as it had occurred.
— from The Heroine by Eaton Stannard Barrett - relieving , a. mitigative , assuasive, palliative , remedial, emollient, lenitive, comforting.
— from Putnam's Word Book A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of an Exact and Varied Vocabulary by Louis A. (Louis Andrew) Flemming - [148] Years rolled on, but the bereaved husband and father finds little assuasive power in the effects of time.
— from Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 19 - Healing , a. Mild, mollifying; assuasive.
— from The Field Book: or, Sports and pastimes of the United Kingdom compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern by W. H. (William Hamilton) Maxwell
