mollification Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered
  2. noun the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined
    pacification.
    • a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants
    • his unsuccessful mollification of the mob

WordNet


Mol`li*fi*ca"tion noun
Etymology
LL. mollificatio; cf. F. mollification.
Definitions
  1. The act of mollifying, or the state of being mollified; a softening. Chaucer.

Webster 1913