mollify
verb (used with object)
mollifies
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present tense formof mollify (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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He mollifies a suspicious Senate subcommittee Did he or didn't he?
From Time Magazine Archive
"It mollifies the entire course of postoperative pain."
From Time Magazine Archive
To have a man so simple and so honourable to represent us in the darkness of primeval history, binds all the intervening centuries together, and mollifies all their monstrosities.
From Varied Types by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Hoary hair mollifies minds that are fond of strife and petulant wrangling.
From The Works of Horace by Horace
This Plaister is efficacious in curing of all kinds of Wounds, Ulcers, Tumours, and Contusions; for it mollifies, digestes, and brings to Suppuration such Matter as ought to be carry'd off this way.
From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc
