mollification

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered
noun the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined

From Old French mollificacion, from Latin mollificātiō, form of molliō. By surface analysis, mollify + -ification.

"Ah, that puts another face on the matter," said the Major, with a degree of mollification coming into his keen, old face and weakly booming voice. — Blue-grass and Broadway, Maria Thompson Daviess
This they thought had been the child, but it was her fundament, that was slipped out with the mollification of her straight entrail, which you call the bum-gut, and that merely by eating of too many tripes, as we have showed you before. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
Yet forgot I to make rehearsale Of waters corrosive, and of limaile,* *metal filings And of bodies’ mollification, And also of their induration, Oiles, ablutions, metal fusible, To tellen all, would passen any Bible That owhere* is; wherefore, as for the best, *anywhere Of all these names now will I me rest; For, as I trow, I have you told enough To raise a fiend, all look he ne’er so rough. — The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems, Geoffrey Chaucer

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