appeasement

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From Middle English appesement, from Old French apaisement.

Billee wagged his tail appeasingly, turned to run when he saw that appeasement was of no avail, and cried (still appeasingly) when Spitz’s sharp teeth scored his flank. — The call of the wild, Jack London
These experiments are to be judged, not à priori, but by actually finding, after the fact of their making, how much more outcry or how much appeasement comes about. — The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, William James
Ten years back, or at a more recent period before Mr. Parnell’s triumph in the number of his followers, they would have formed a basis for the appeasement of the troubled land. — Complete Short Works of George Meredith, George Meredith

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