assuaging

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of assuage

noun

1. The act of one who assuages.

   “In our sorrow at the loss of friends, if we shun direct and proffered consolations, we love the assuagings which another's pity administers to us in the gentle tones, mild manners, kind looks, and nameless little notices […]”