In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PACIFICATION
pacification, counterinsurgency
(noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
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”
peace, peace treaty, pacification
(noun) a treaty to cease hostilities; “peace came on November 11th”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pacification (countable and uncountable, plural pacifications)
The process of pacifying.
Source: Wiktionary
Pa*cif`i*ca"tion, n. [L. pacificatio: cf. F. pacification. See Pacify.]
Definition: The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. "An embassy of pacification." Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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