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reassuring

/ɹiːəˈʃɔːɹɪŋ/ adjective B2
  1. That reassures; causing or restoring comfort or confidence.
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I stepped up to her with a few reassuring words, and she lay still while I took her pulse and temperature.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 62 · B2
“To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.,” was engraved upon it, with the date “1884.” It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry—dignified, solid, and reassuring.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 1 · C1

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