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Pacify

verb

(past & past part. pacified; pres. part. pacifying)

Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of. Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, placate.

Fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location).

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"Pacify" Quotes from Famous Books

... been heard so often in the family that it was stereotyped on the memory of all. The father therefore capitulated, and in a tone intended to pacify the boy he said: "Now there's no use in stirring up anything over this matter. If you want to go with Palmer I will gain your mother's consent. I'll tell her you have asked my permission. I will permit you to remain there as long as you do right. You know more about this business than I ...

— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field

... drinking the different wines, and to much the same effect, I should think, as if they had mixed them all in one cup; though I ought to say that several of the ladies took no wine, and kept me in countenance after the first taste I was obliged to take of each, in order to pacify my host. ...

— Through the Eye of the Needle - A Romance • W. D. Howells

... war, 1868-78, the people yielded to what proved a delusive promise of home-rule. How could Spain bestow upon her colony what she did not possess herself? When in 1881 she tried to pacify Cuba by permitting that island to send six Senators to sit in the Spanish Cortes, it was a phantom of a phantom. There was no outlet for the national will in Spain itself. Her Cortes was not a national assembly, and its members were not the choice of the ...

— A Short History of Spain • Mary Platt Parmele

... spring day did little to reassure him. Weather does not mean very much to those who labor in heated atmospheres, who have no profit of the sunshine nor gift of the seasons. Alban thought rather of the fateful clock and of the excuses which might pacify the timekeeper. He had never stooped to the common lies; he would not stoop to them this day. When, at the gate of the works, a heavy jowled man with a red beard asked him what he meant by coming there at such an hour, he answered as frankly that he ...

— Aladdin of London - or Lodestar • Sir Max Pemberton

... pacify her, left the room, and the countess-dowager rushed forth and bolted herself ...

— Elster's Folly • Mrs. Henry Wood

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