"pacification" in the noun sense
1. pacification, mollification
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"
2. peace, peace treaty, pacification
a treaty to cease hostilities
"peace came on November 11th"
3. pacification, counterinsurgency
actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
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