Definition: mollification

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

mollification
     n : the act of pacifying; "a wonderful skill in the pacification
         of crying infants"; "his unsuccessful mollification of
         the mob" [syn: pacification]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Mollification \Mol`li*fi*ca"tion\, n. [LL. mollificatio; cf. F.
   mollification.]
   The act of mollifying, or the state of being mollified; a
   softening. --Chaucer.