Meanings
- contractionobsoletepoeticto assuage
Had not those two him instantly desired Tasswage his wrath , and pardon their mesprise
1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC2 more examples
Folkes that vse to make great viages, Which vnderfong long trauaile and labour, When thei haue done gret part of their passages Of werines tasswage their rigour, again faintise to find some fauour, loke oft agayne parcell to be releued, to see how much theyr iourney is atcheued.
1554, Tottel, page 96I am ashamed herewith all, it maketh me repyne, That Tyndaris (who from the gods doth fetche her noble lygne) Shold gyue the ghost tasswage y wrath of gods and then appeas , Wherby the grekyshe nauye myght haue passage
1566, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, translated by John Studley, Studley's Translations of Seneca's Agamemnon and Medea
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