mollification

2 definitions found

mollification - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
     [1913 Webster]

mollification - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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"
         [syn: pacification, mollification]