Associations to the word «Pacification»

Wiktionary

PACIFICATION, noun. The process of pacifying.

Dictionary definition

PACIFICATION, noun. 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".
PACIFICATION, noun. A treaty to cease hostilities; "peace came on November 11th".
PACIFICATION, noun. Actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne