pacification

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined
noun a treaty to cease hostilities
noun actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency

From Middle English pacificacion, from Old French pacification.

But this process of pacification was too rapid for my excited uncle. — Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver, Theodore Canot
Through the spring and summer they were trying to effect a pacification. — William Pitt and national revival, J. Holland (John Holland) Rose
We propose to give terms of pacification which we think fair and equitable. — Great Britain and the American Civil War, Ephraim Douglass Adams

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