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Definition of Calming
1. Noun. The act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of).
Generic synonyms: Social Control
Specialized synonyms: Mollification, Pacification, Conciliation, Placation, Propitiation
Definition of Calming
1. Verb. (present participle of calm) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Calming
1. calm [v] - See also: calm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calming
Literary usage of Calming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1868)
"... or in any other way as an excitant, and have so often felt consciously, and
carefully observed in others a calming, subduing, tranquillizing influence ..."
2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1843)
"The Annales de Chimie et de Physique for the month of March 1342, contain a Memoir
by MA Van Beek, on the property possessed by oils of calming waves, ..."
3. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"I have led her home, my love, my only And never yet so warmly ran my blood And
sweetly, on and on calming itself to the long-wish'd-forend. ..."
4. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With Anecdotes of by Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland (1843)
"... and did more towards calming the effervescence of the conflicting parties
there than if an army had been sent over the border by king Charles. ..."
5. America's Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram by Nancy Everill Hoffmann, John C. Van Horne (2004)
"... Crystal A. Polis & Robert E. Savage calming John Bartram 's Passion: Sweden '«?
Scientific Certification of Philadelphia 's Botanist In 1769, ..."
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