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Definition of Appeasement
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 Appeasement
1. n. The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification.
Definition of Appeasement
1. Noun. The state of being appeased; the policy of giving in to demands in order to preserve the peace. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Appeasement
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appeasement
Literary usage of Appeasement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Atharva-veda Saṁhitā by William Dwight Whitney, Charles Rockwell Lanman (1904)
"For appeasement and weal: to various divinities. ... by which is produced (sty)
what is terrible — by that be there appeasement for us. 4. Or(? ..."
2. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1810)
"... the contraction of a word, '•& for though fee, â-pub'trù-fè. s. figure in
appeasement, ... appeasement ..."
3. Selected Poems by GEORGE. MEREDITH (1897)
"THE appeasement OF DEMETER I DEMETER devastated our good land, In blackness for
her daughter snatched below. Smoke-pillar or loose hillock was the sand, ..."
4. Diplomat's Dictionary by Charles W. Freeman, Jr. (1995)
"appeasement: A reduction of tension between two previously hostile states or groups
... appeasement: "Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. ..."
5. Korea on the Brink: From the "12/12" Incident to the Kwangju Uprising, 1979-1980 by John Adams Wickham (1999)
"Power Consolidation and American appeasement Flushed with their initial success,
Chun's group decided that President- Elect Choi should be retained as a ..."
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