tranquillizing

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He wondered whether lithium could have the same tranquillizing effect on his patients.

From Nature • Aug. 25, 2019

In this declaration there was a sort of tranquillizing influence which Sonnenkamp himself felt.

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold

Aunt Claudine, on the other hand, in spite of the difference of years, could be a young person's friend, and Manna felt the tranquillizing effect of this friendship.

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold

With a view of tranquillizing my mind, every restitution is offered me.

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne

She loved the retirement of a country life, and found in it, in her own language, “a wonderful effect in tranquillizing the spirit and calming every unpleasant emotion.”

From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth