What's the difference between assuage and attemper?
Assuage
Definition:
(v. t.) To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire.
(v. i.) To abate or subside.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the fact Yellen is even being considered is a feat in itself as central banking is still an old boy’s club, Cooper adds: The new Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney may have assuaged feminists with his choice of Jane Austen for the ten pound note, but his Monetary Policy Committee is female free.
(2) Their frustration at the failure here cannot be underestimated and it cannot be easily assuaged through more elections.
(3) He had also insisted on construction continuing at Arak, and suggested that international concerns could be assuaged if the work stopped short of putting uranium fuel in the reactor and turning it on.
(4) Nonetheless, he achieved much in his six months in charge: he implemented Oslo II ahead of schedule, assuaged the religious right, bolstered the economy and co-operated with Arafat over the first-ever Palestinian elections.
(5) Initial findings of a limited study of one of the groups suggest a high degree of agreement among parent-members as to the ameliorative effect of this type of therapy, notably its capacity to assuage feelings of isolation.
(6) Moreover, she explains, seeing off the paedo-menace has yielded other improvements: the child protection sessions are part of a council drive to assuage community fears that has been careful to take grass-roots sentiment on board.
(7) Before it is realised, however, pioneers like Amazon will have to assuage the doubts of privacy activists concerned about the impact on civil liberties and of government regulators worried about how flying robots would interact with manned aircraft.
(8) It was a highly provocative gesture that did nothing to assuage fears that Morsi’s election marked the gateway to a more extremist Egypt.
(9) Water or diluted fruit juice may be used to assuage thirst, but should not supplant milk even in the later stages of weaning, since they contain no calcium or most other essential micronutrients.
(10) Fahmy's announcement may assuage concerns that the new army-installed government that replaced Morsi's is attempting to stall a return to democratic politics.
(11) While Wednesday's ruling could be seen as a victory for the PDRC, it is unlikely to assuage protesters, who may now turn on the new caretaker prime minister, said Thitinan Pongsudhirak of Thailand's Institute of Security and International Studies.
(12) This protocol provides a systematic approach to investigation and analysis, prioritizes the need for more in-depth study, and, when necessary, assuages community concerns when a disease cluster is reported.
(13) However, it is unclear if Clinton’s opposition to Arctic drilling, and support of Keystone pipeline, will assuage liberals who accuse her of political maneuvering in the face of a surprisingly successful challenge from Sanders.
(14) The 57-year-old issued a full apology to "patients, relatives and carers [who] found themselves in the position where they not only had terrible things happen to them but the very organisation they looked to for support let them down in the most devastating of ways" – but this did little to assuage the anger felt.
(15) The US Senate's defeat of a background check expansion three weeks ago did nothing to assuage the fears of Missouri Republicans, who pressed forward with their legislation.
(16) But the cash has only gone some way towards assuaging critics, one of whom complained that companies should not be able to "pick and choose" how much tax they wanted to pay.
(17) The limitation will go some way to assuage the concerns of German taxpayers whose frustration at the prospect of having to bail out indebted southern European countries indefinitely has been on the rise.
(18) Acupuncture assuaged the emotional, but not the sensory, response to the painful stimulation.
(19) Both feeding patterns involve assuagement of hunger needs but are dependent on social setting.
(20) The top US commander in Afghanistan rushed to assuage those concerns, saying the deal was not a "zero option" that would leave the country's security forces isolated after 2016, acknowledging critical components such as the fledgling air force would probably get intense and longer-term support.
Attemper
Definition:
(v. t.) To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature.
(v. t.) To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice with clemency.
(v. t.) To mix in just proportion; to regulate; as, a mind well attempered with kindness and justice.
(v. t.) To accommodate; to make suitable; to adapt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both the in vitro and the in vivo aspects of the problem are discussed in some detail and an attemps is made to provide a reasonably unified concept for both.
(2) Tottenham’s Danny Rose apologises for setting bad example in Chelsea draw Read more The ill feeling spilled over into the tunnel at the end as Spurs and Chelsea players got involved in a rolling maul which led to the home manager Guus Hiddink being sent flying and his counterpart Mauricio Pochettino attemping to prise the multiple brawlers apart.
(3) Ninety-three were complete amputations and 80 of these survived; 49 were incomplete amputations and 46 survived after revascularization attemps.
(4) This study attemped to identify traits that might be described as "typical" of black elementary school children.
(5) The letest attemp to treat O. i. is the application of calcitonin.
(6) As an attemp to improve the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of neoplastic neck nodes, we are evaluating ultrasound B-scans.
(7) The prevention of recurrences of bladder cancer was attemped in 48 patients by means of the combined intravesical instillation of thio-tepa and urokinase and in 28 patients through the instillation of thio-tepa alone.
(8) The authors have attemped to give characteristics of the epileptical syndrome, provocated by ascarides and seat-worms.
(9) Although these attemps have been unsuccessful thus far, the approach described in this report provides an example of an objective, quantitative, biochemical assessment of ciliary function.
(10) This work attemps to find, by the technique of the one-step growth curve in suspended cells, if the virus replication scheme is similar to other poxviruses.
(11) In the Berlevag project attemps have been made at using psycho-physiological and cognitive measures as indexes of psychiatric morbidity.--With skin conductance response, psychotics and neurotics showed signs of autonomic inhibition compared with conduct disorders and normal controls.
(12) Attemps to correlate phenytoin ClB with basal metabolic rate also failed.
(13) Reference is made to several attemps of limiting or reducing the popularity of their use which took place in mid eighties.
(14) Attemps at immunotherapy over the years are reviewed and new directions are presented.
(15) Five patients underwent peroperative haemodynamic assessment in order to attemps to define the role of nitroglycerine used during this period.
(16) This work encompasses a 20-year period, during which a urologist spent an important part of his time in a children's hospital, because of his conviction that attemps at effective treatment of urinary passage anomalies in childhood have a chance only when treatment is begun as early as possible.
(17) Attemps for mechanical or physical factors as explanation are not convincing.
(18) This letter attemps to show that previously published reports claiming that irrigation of the vas after vasectomy, with nitrofurans or euflavine solutions does not dispense with the need for subsequent semen analyses.
(19) The 2014 budget was a very serious structural attempt to tackle our long-term spending problems.” Abbott defended the cuts to health and education and other measures in the Coalition’s deeply unpopular 2014 budget, which led to a run of dismal opinion polls for the Coalition ending in Abbott’s ousting.
(20) This study attemped to isolate some of the stimulus variables that controlled the self-destructive behavior of a psychotic child.