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Pacification

Pacification Meaning & Definition
Pacification Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pacification?

[n] actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
[n] 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"
[n] a treaty to cease hostilities; "peace came on November 11th"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pacification: counterinsurgency | mollification | peace | peace treaty

Related Terms | Find terms related to Pacification: abatement | allayment | alleviation | armistice | assuagement | blunting | breathing spell | buffer zone | calming | cease-fire | cooling-off period | damping | deadening | demilitarized zone | demulsion | diminution | dulcification | dulling | easing | falling-off | hollow truce | hushing | leniency | lessening | letdown | letup | lightening | loosening | lulling | mitigation | modulation | modus vivendi | mollification | neutral territory | palliation | Pax Dei | pax in bello | Pax Romana | peace | Peace of God | quietening | quieting | reduction | relaxation | remission | slackening | softening | soothing | stand-down | subduement | suspension of hostilities | tempering | temporary arrangement | tranquilization | treaty of peace | truce

See Also | accord | appeasement | battle | calming | conflict | pact | Peace of Westphalia | struggle | treaty

Pacification In Webster's Dictionary

\Pa*cif`i*ca"tion\, n. [L. pacificatio: cf. F. pacification. See {Pacify}.] The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. ``An embassy of pacification.'' --Bacon.

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