Pacification

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pacification \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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pacification
       n 1: 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" [syn: {mollification}]
       2: a treaty to cease hostilities; "peace came on November 11th"
          [syn: {peace}, {peace treaty}]
       3: actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency [syn: {counterinsurgency}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "pacification":
     Pax Dei, Pax Romana, Peace of God, 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 in bello, peace, quietening,
     quieting, reduction, relaxation, remission, slackening, softening,
     soothing, stand-down, subduement, suspension of hostilities,
     tempering, temporary arrangement, tranquilization, treaty of peace,
     truce