Mollify
['mɒlɪfaɪ] or ['mɑlɪfaɪ]
Definition
(v. t.) To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.
(v. t.) To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Soften, make soft.[2]. Appease, pacify, compose, soothe, tranquillize, calm, quiet.[3]. Assuage, mitigate, moderate, ease, allay, abate, temper, attemper, relieve, lessen, qualify, dull, blunt.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See MOLEST]
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Definition
v.t. to make soft or tender: to assuage: to calm or pacify:—pa.p. moll′ified.—adjs. Moll′ient serving to soften: assuaging; Moll′ifiable.—ns. Mollificā′tion act of mollifying: state of being mollified: mitigation; Moll′ifier; Moll′ine a base for ointments used in skin diseases a soft soap mixed with excess of fat and glycerine.—adj. Mollipī′lose having soft plumage.—n. Mollipilos′ity fleecines fluffiness.—adj. Mollit′ious luxurious.—n. Moll′itude.
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Examples
- Mr. Chillip was fluttered again, by the extreme severity of my aunt's manner; so he made her a little bow and gave her a little smile, to mollify her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He has nothing for it but to abdicate, and run from an evil which he can neither prevent nor mollify. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Nothing would mollify the horrid man. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Vell, that's wery true, Sammy,' replied Mr. Weller, mollified at once; 'but wot are you a-doin' on here? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- One of the men went back and mollified him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is not worth my while,' pursues Podsnap, becoming handsomely mollified, 'and it is the reverse of important to my position. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I was fortunately absent, and she was mollified somehow by my other assistants. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Lady Grizzel was won by her humility and was mollified towards the little woman. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then don't talk in that wrong manner, says Mr. Bucket, mollified again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Analytical Chemist goes to the door, confers angrily with unseen tapper, appears to become mollified by descrying reason in the tapping, and goes out. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I am glad, Volumnia, repeats Sir Leicester, unmindful of these mollifying sentiments, that you do mean what a pity. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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