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Appeasement   /əpˈizmənt/   Listen
Appeasement

noun
1.
The act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of).  Synonym: calming.






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"Appeasement" Quotes from Famous Books



... the camp in shape, she lay down by the little blaze with her head under a lupine plant. Her wrath had simmered to appeasement by the retirement of the doctor into his wagon, and David, glimpsing at her, saw that her eyes, a thread of observation between black-fringed lids, dwelt musingly on the sky. She looked as if she ...
— The Emigrant Trail • Geraldine Bonner

... after the astonishment of the first perusal, had remained a source of interest and reflection with Benedetta amidst the emptiness of her days given over to grief? What! was it really possible that she might find some appeasement for her own wretchedness by interesting herself in the humble, in the happiness of the poor? Emotion already thrilled her at the idea, and he, quivering at the thought of all the boundless love that was within her and that she might bestow, ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

... vengeance on an innocent scapegoat would bring no true appeasement to the deep bruise of outraged loyalty. If Ken Thornton had assumed a guilt, not his own, to protect a woman, he had no quarrel with Ken Thornton, and he could not forget that until that day of the shooting this man had been ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck



Words linked to "Appeasement" :   placation, mollification, propitiation, conciliation, social control, pacification



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