Pacification

Dictionary meanings

1. The act of pacifying or the condition of being pacified; appeasement.

2. a) Reduction, as of a rebellious district, to peacful submission; e.g real pacification is hard to get in the Vietnamese countryside - McGeorge Bundy.

b) Practical measures or policy aiming to effect this kind of submission.

c) Often, Pacification: A peace treaty; e.g The pacification of Ghent.

Thesaurus definitions

1. Pacification - a treaty of peace to cease hostilities; "peace came on November 11th" peace treaty, peace, pact, treaty, accord. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns: Peace of Westphalia - the peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648. Treaty of Versailles - the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans.

2. Pacification - the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined; "a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants"; "his unsuccessful mollification of the mob". Mollification appeasement, calming - the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of).

See also

• peaceful.

External links

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pacification