placation
- noun
- /pləˈkeɪʃən/
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apaciguamiento
- From slavery to the Reconstruction to the precipice at which we now stand, we have seen powerful white men rule the world while offering poor white men a vicious lie as placation.
Examples
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The manager's apology served as a placation for the mistakes made during the event planning.
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So when I need caloric placation, I seek solace in a big bowl of something warm and mushy.
Blog text (30) -
Decisions on sensitive issues are made in very secretive settings usually involving the king and the brothers closest to him and are affected by a sluggish process that tends to seek consensus through consultation within the family, requiring the placation of various factions within it and within the broader circles of regime supporters.
Academic text (2013) -
His gesture of placation helped calm the angry crowd during the protest.
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After a heated argument, she offered him a small gift as a placation to ease the tension between them.
Synonyms
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To calm someone by giving in to their demands to avoid conflict
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A gift or action that ends an argument and brings back friendship
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An act that brings people or groups back to peace with help from a neutral person
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Gentle persuasion using praise or kind words to get someone to do something
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A small thing given to calm someone who is angry or unhappy
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An action or gift to please someone after doing wrong, often to calm a god
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To convince someone with kind words or calm actions
An action that calms someone who is angry
Calming people who are angry or upset
Antonyms
How Pacifying
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Placation comes from the Latin verb placare, which means 'to calm' or 'to please', and you can see the same root in placid, meaning calm. So placation is the act of calming someone or stopping their anger.