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Meanings of tranquillizing in English

Tending to soothe or tranquilize.

Usage of tranquillizing in English
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The soothing and tranquillizing effect of the sitz is described as extraordinary:-
The Recreations of a Country Parson
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Madeleine's tranquillizing influence over others was one of her most remarkable traits.
Fairy Fingers / A Novel
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The effect of this communication was the reverse of tranquillizing upon the patient.
At Last: A Novel
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But the beating of her heart grew faster in spite of that tranquillizing assurance.
The Lovels of Arden
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Rachael said quickly, when the tranquillizing voice reached this point.
The Heart of Rachael
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We thought it was only lawyers who believed in the tranquillizing effect of an injunction.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 15, 1919
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The tranquillizing finger of Sleep never touched his eyelids.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 / A Magazine...
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This rather meaningless placebo has a surprisingly tranquillizing effect on restless youth and nationalistic zealots.
After the Rain : how the West lost the East
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Some tranquillizing influence seemed to have departed from him.
The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature
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A highly oriental sight also, and far from tranquillizing!
Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
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A lake glitters in the plain beneath, and the whole scene is harmoniously bewitching and tranquillizing.
The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 / Devoted...
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In the midst of this hubbub, the mother entered, and at once interposed her tranquillizing influence.
Gritli's Children
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What followed seemed obviously restrained and modified by the effect of this unlooked-for and tranquillizing overture.
The Damnation of Theron Ware
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The king desires your counsel, your opinion as to the best means of tranquillizing these states.
Egmont
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From you I looked for a tranquillizing sedative, and you surprise me with a reanimating restorative.
The Cross of Berny; Or, Irene's Lovers
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This was rather a rough mode of tranquillizing public excitement, but seems to have been effectual.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1...
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Tranquillizing through the time