pacificate
verb (used with object)
to pacify.
pacificatory
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a word derived from
pacificate.
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a word derived from
pacification.
pacificationnounthe act, process, or policy of pacifying
Example Sentences
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Had a similar policy been pursued with respect to other gross abuses, the effect upon the public mind would have been most pacificatory.
From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by John Charles Dent
Again Rufe laughed: "No—" he said with a quick pacificatory look to young Dave, "not to HIM!"
From The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox
The shouts of the crowd sounded pacificatory, entreating; they blended into a thick, indistinct babel, in which there was something hopeless and pitiful.
From Mother by Maksim Gorky
The letters which the poet had written, in order to conciliate those two republics, had proved as useless as the pacificatory efforts of Clement VI. and his successor, Innocent.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
Mr. Barrett would have advised more pacificatory talk.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
