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English Dictionary: mollification by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mollification
n
  1. a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered
  2. 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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mollification \Mol`li*fi*ca"tion\, n. [LL. mollificatio; cf. F.
      mollification.]
      The act of mollifying, or the state of being mollified; a
      softening. --Chaucer.
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