placation
Noun
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Noun
placation
- A process or act of placating; appeasement or an expression of appeasement.
- 1888, "Manners and meals," Science, vol. 12, no. 283, p. 3 ↗:
- The refusal, at certain times and seasons, of food that in itself is hygienically good and palatable, in placation of a deity, or, without further explanation, to avoid bad luck, is well known among the lower tribes of men.
- 1917, Jack London, Jerry of the Islands, ch. 7:
- Instead, Jerry was all placation and appeal, all softness of pleading.
- 2006, Dan DeWalt, "Impeachment is too important to leave to the Democrats ↗," OpEdNews.com, 14 May (retrieved 8 Aug. 2009):
- While these political sellout artists have been intoning their mind numbing placations, citizens across the nation have been speaking and acting.
- 1888, "Manners and meals," Science, vol. 12, no. 283, p. 3 ↗:
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