What is the meaning of mollification?

noun

  • A state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered.
  • The act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined.
    • usage: "a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants"; "his unsuccessful mollification of the mob"
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