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Definition of Placatory
1. Adjective. Intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions. "An astonishingly placatory speech"
Similar to: Conciliative, Conciliatory
Derivative terms: Placate, Placate
Definition of Placatory
1. Adjective. That placates; pacifying. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Placatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Placatory
Literary usage of Placatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essentials in Journalism: A Manual in Newspaper Making for College Classes by Harry Franklin Harrington, Theodore Thomas Frankenberg (1912)
"In general, however, they take a deprecating or placatory attitude. This kind of
gentle roaring has often been heard from Senator La Follette and his ..."
2. Chambers's Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by James Donald, William Chambers (1878)
"[Fr., from pied, foot, and rouette, dim. of rotte, a wheel.] placatory. See under
Placea. Placet, pis'er, n., the fishes, the twelfth sign of the zodiac. ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D. ...: Sometime President of Corpus Christi by Thomas Jackson (1844)
"Some gods the heathens honoured with placatory sacrifices, lest being neglected
they should do them harm : other gods, whom they conceived to be the authors ..."
4. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1921)
"(i) it evidently appears that we too much undervalue the grace of Christ, unless
we attribute to his sacrifice an expiatory, placatory. and satisfactory ..."
5. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1893)
"... and the epithet " bella" is no doubt placatory, like the " good people" applied
to the fairies; for, though generally beneficent, she can be malicious, ..."
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