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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered;

2. the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined;
- Example: "a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants"
- Example: "his unsuccessful mollification of the mob"
[syn: pacification, mollification]


The 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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]