pacificate
verb (used with object)
to pacify.
pacificator
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a word derived from
pacificate.
Example Sentences
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Last week Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg brought to a climax a hereditary role of U. S. Secretaries of State, the role of pacificator of Chile and Peru.
From Time Magazine Archive
But there was no doubt that Pius XII was busily trying to act as grand pacificator.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was the practice when any decision was made at all; but, in most cases, the justice acted as a pacificator, and, by his authority and persuasion, induced the parties to agree upon a compromise.
From Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States by F.O.C. Darley
On one hand was Smuts, still Prime Minister, taxing his every resource as parliamentarian and pacificator to maintain the Union and prevent a revolt from Britain—all in the face of a bitter and hostile majority.
From An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson
When the Indian trail gets widened, graded, and bridged to a good road, there is a benefactor, there is a missionary, a pacificator, a wealth-bringer, a maker of markets, a vent for industry.
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
