From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pacification \Pa*cif'i*ca"tion\, noun [L. pacificatio: cf. F. pacification. See {Pacify}.] The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. ''An embassy of pacification.'' --Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: 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" [syn: {mollification}]
2: a treaty to cease hostilities; "peace came on November 11th" [syn: {peace}, {peace treaty}]
3: actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency [syn: {counterinsurgency}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "pacification": Pax Dei, Pax Romana, Peace of God, abatement, allayment, alleviation, armistice, assuagement, blunting, breathing spell, buffer zone, calming, cease-fire, cooling-off period, damping, deadening, demilitarized zone, demulsion, diminution, dulcification, dulling, easing, falling-off, hollow truce, hushing, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lulling, mitigation, modulation, modus vivendi, mollification, neutral territory, palliation, pax in bello, peace, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, remission, slackening, softening, soothing, stand-down, subduement, suspension of hostilities, tempering, temporary arrangement, tranquilization, treaty of peace, truce
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