placable

[plak-uh-buh l, pley-kuh-]

adjective

capable of being placated, pacified, or appeased; forgiving.

Origin of placable

1490–1500; < Old French < Latin plācābilis. See placate¹, -able

Related formsplac·a·bil·i·ty, plac·a·ble·ness, noun

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Historical Examples of placable

The sweet, placable, scrupulous nature began to blame itself.
Robert Elsmere
Mrs. Humphry Ward
To have both strong, but both selected: in the one, to be placable; in the other, immovable.
Thoughts on the Present Discontents
Edmund Burke
The two Houses met in the spring of 1640, in no placable frame of mind.
A History of England
Charles Oman
Nor, indeed, was the proper garrison of the fort in at all a placable mood.
A Noble Queen (Volume II of III)
Philip Meadows Taylor
Mrs Honour was altogether as placable as she was passionate.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Henry Fielding

British Dictionary definitions for placable

placable

adjective

easily placated or appeased

Derived Formsplacability or placableness, nounplacably, adverb

Word Origin for placable

C15: via Old French from Latin plācābilis, from plācāre to appease; related to placēre to please

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Word Origin and History for placable

adj.

c.1500, "pleasing," from Middle French placable "forgiving, conciliatory" and directly from Latin placabilis "easily appeased or pacified," from placare "to appease" (see placate). From 1580s as "capable of being pleased." Related: Placably; placability.