Definition of Mollifiers

1. Noun. (plural of mollifier) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mollifiers

1. mollifier [n] - See also: mollifier

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mollifiers

molle
mollebart
mollemoke
mollemokes
mollicute
mollicutes
mollie
mollient
mollies
mollifiable
mollification
mollifications
mollifie
mollified
mollifier
mollifiers (current term)
mollifies
mollify
mollifying
mollifyingly
mollipilose
mollisol
mollisols
mollities
mollitude
molls
mollusc
mollusca
molluscacides
molluscan

Literary usage of Mollifiers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Graham's Magazine by Graham, George R, Edgar Allan Poe, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1848)
"... and quieted my impatience by inward ejaculations—a vast deal of good do those inward conversations produce, such mollifiers of the temper are they. ..."

2. An Encyclopædia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of by John Claudius Loudon (1860)
"... to which we occasionally add, as mollifiers, vegetable or leaf mould, and well-rotted dung ; from the judicious mixture and preparation of which, ..."

3. Letters of James Smetham by James Smetham (1892)
"Boiled oil and drab paint are wonderful mollifiers. I know one lion who has been on the same door-step for eighteen years. How much longer I dare not say. ..."

4. History of the Scottish Church by W. Stephen (1894)
"Let us not think lightly of the saints of lona, who were the instructors of our fathers when they were ignorant, and the mollifiers of our progenitors while ..."

5. The Monthly Journal of the American Unitarian Association by American Unitarian Association (1866)
"But there is a time for separation and separate organization ; for men and women of real and positive faith cannot consent to remain mere mollifiers or ..."

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