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 ]

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