mollify

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For as a leaf for medicine, when applied to a sore in the body, doth supple, mollify, and heal the wound; so the word of promise, when rightly applied to the soul, it doth supple, mollify, and heal the wounded conscience.

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  1. transitive verb To calm in temper or feeling; soothe. See Synonyms at pacify.
  2. transitive verb To lessen in intensity; temper.
  3. transitive verb To reduce the rigidity of; soften.

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  • The diocese bases its objection on the strong-armed tactics Griswold used to force the passage of the hastily penned resolution to mollify, rather than comply with, the demands of the Windsor Report. —  Anglican Mainstream
  • Obama memo from Gibbs and Simmons says Palin appointment done to "mollify" right wingers. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • The fact that she's a "straight shooter" on global warming may be related to the fact that she couldn't "mollify" people about —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • The fact that she's a "straight shooter" on global warming may be related to the fact that she couldn't "mollify" people about Thiomersal. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • Some have speculated that the new option may be an attempt by Microsoft to mollify European Union antitrust regulators, who have accused the company of Comprehensive Backup and Recovery of VMware Virtual Infrastructure —  Latest from Computerworld
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  1. Middle English mollifien, from Old French mollifier, from Late Latin mollificāre : Latin mollis, soft; see mel-1 in Indo-European roots + -ficāre, -fy.

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  1. from French mollifier = Provencal mollificar = Spanish molificar = Portuguese mollificar = Italian mollificare, from Late Latin mollificare, soften, from mollificus, making soft, from Latin mollis, soft, + facere, make: see -fy.
 

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/ˈmɑlɪfai/
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