pacification

[ US /ˌpæsəfəˈkeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /pˌæsɪfɪkˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a treaty to cease hostilities
    peace came on November 11th
  2. actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
  3. the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined
    his unsuccessful mollification of the mob
    a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants
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How To Use pacification In A Sentence

  • Nevertheless, the US contribution to the pacification and democratisation of Western Europe, and to a lesser extent the Pacific Rim, shows what can be done when local determination is succoured by superpower resources.
  • Resentment of this magnitude was a clear indication of the failure of the avowed policy of pacification and Romanization.
  • Real pacification is hard to get in the Vietnamese countryside.
  • Pacification of Pinerolo, with France: the duke of Savoy stopped the persecution of Vaudois and Charles II was to be expelled from France. 1652
  • Very soon after the initial pacification of the country and the onset of humanitarian relief and economic reconstruction, the task of political reconstruction must begin.
  • Another important element of the pacification was the maintenance of freedom. The indigenous past of Zacatecas
  • If there is any thing to pacificate I am in favor of pacification, but in favor of it according to the Constitution. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861
  • They were meant to be followed by a huge programme of infrastructural renewal, or 'social pacification'. Times, Sunday Times
  • And Hannah was now angry that her pacification attempt had fallen rather flat. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
  • Which was a surmize altogither void of likeliehood, considering that the father, in the whole processe of his actions betweene himselfe and his sonnes, was so farre from the desire of inflicting any corporall punishment, or leuieng anie fine vpon them for their misdemenour, that he alwaies sought meanes of reconcilement and pacification. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
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