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Placable

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Able to be easily pacified; quick to forgive.

    "1577, Meredith Hanmer (translator), The Auncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, London, The Seventh Booke of the Ecclesiasticall Historye of Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Caesarea in Palaestina, Chapter 17, […] after that the deuine and celestiall grace of God behelde vs with a placable and mercifull countenance, then our princes, euen they which heretofore warred against vs, after a wonderfull manner chaunged their opinion […]"

  2. 2
    Peaceable; quiet.

    "to be fortunate without the grudge of enuy is the signe of a most quiet, peaceable, & placable man:"

  3. 3
    Having the effect of pacifying, appeasing or pleasing. obsolete

    "The scripture is ful of places whiche teache these sacrifyces to be moste acceptable to god, & therfore often tyme they be called odours or sauours moste swete placable sacrifyces, acceptable offerynges to god."

Adjective
  1. 1
    easily calmed or pacified wordnet

Etymology

From Latin plācābilis.

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