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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mollify.

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Examples

  • In fact, in the course of composing his explicitly corrective version of the First Crusade, Guibert participates in several contests simultaneously; he "mollifies" the style and corrects the substance of previous writers on the Crusades; he argues for some miracles and against others; he utilizes and attempts to transcend both the

    The Deeds of God Through the Franks Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy Guibert 1088

  • This pinpoints -- and explains and to at least a small extent mollifies -- the criticism of contemporary blockbuster cinema that the plots often make no sense.

    Avatar deliasherman 2010

  • They don't like to wait and she's found that virtually no excuse mollifies them.

    Time's running out on that summer reading list (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • But it's a new-world wine that mollifies its oak and allows rich fruit to unfold.

    What We Drank 2009

  • But it's a new-world wine that mollifies its oak and allows rich fruit to unfold.

    What We Drank (June 30, 2009) 2009

  • But it's a new-world wine that mollifies its oak and allows rich fruit to unfold.

    LENNDEVOURS: 2009

  • Sooner or later the two sides will settle on a formula that mollifies Washington and keeps Netanyahu's coalition intact.

    Between Barack and a Hard Place 2010

  • She spoke to a cheering crowd at the symposium, along with Rudolph Giuliani and several former Bush officials -- Michael Mukasey, Tom Ridge, Frances Townsend -- who denounced the ongoing American policy that demonizes the dissidents and thereby mollifies the repressive Ahmadinejad regime.

    Joan Z. Shore: Abandoning Friends, Appeasing Foes Joan Z. Shore 2010

  • He mollifies himself somewhat by the fact he gets a story into one of the books.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Hugo Winners Volume 3 - Isaac Asimov Blue Tyson 2008

  • True the Beeb is biased in its favour, but capitulation to a left slanted agenda mollifies it hardly at all.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

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