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Pacification

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The process of pacifying. countable, uncountable

    "The Proteſtants in their Anſwer acknowledged the good-will of the Emperor their Chief, and ſhewed, that the Catholicks ahd oppreſſed them, contrary to the Pacification"

  2. 2
    actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency wordnet
  3. 3
    the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined wordnet
  4. 4
    a treaty to cease hostilities wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English pacificacion, from Old French pacification.

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