Pacification : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Pacification	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Pacification
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pacification n the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined; "a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants"; "his unsuccessful mollification of the mob" Synonym(s): pacification, mollification a treaty to cease hostilities; "peace came on November 11th" Synonym(s): peace, peace treaty, pacification actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency Synonym(s): pacification, counterinsurgency
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pacification \Pacif`ica"tion\, n. [L. pacificatio: cf. F. pacification. See {Pacify}.] The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. [bd]An embassy of pacification.[b8] --Bacon.