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Definition of Mollifiers
1. mollifier [n] - See also: mollifier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mollifiers
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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