MOLLIFICATION

pacification, mollification

(noun) the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined; “a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants”; “his unsuccessful mollification of the mob”

mollification

(noun) a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

mollification (countable and uncountable, plural mollifications)

The act of mollifying.

Source: Wiktionary


Mol`li*fi*ca"tion, n. Etym: [LL. mollificatio; cf. F. mollification.]

Definition: The act of mollifying, or the state of being mollified; a softening. Chaucer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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GUILLOTINE

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