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mollification|mɒlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən|
[a. OF. mollificacion (F. mollification), ad. L. mollificātiōn-em f. mollificāre: see mollify v. and -ation.]
The action of the verb mollify; an appeasing, appeasement, pacification. Also, † something that softens (a substance) or mitigates the harshness of (an action or quality); † a softening expression, a qualifying clause.
c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 301 Yet forgat I to maken rehersaille Of watres corosif and of lymaille And of bodies mollificacion. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Form. S j b, The dylygent workman..ought to wyt to whiche resolucyon is due, and to which mollyfycacyon. 1562W. Bullein Bulwark, Dial. Soarnes & Chir. 13 You muste use mollifications, and softenyng medicenes. 1590P. Barrough Meth. Physick ii. xi. (1596) 91 If it [sc. matter] creepe into the belly, you must minister most of all mollifications. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. viii. §5 (1622) 290 There is a mollification vsed, to reduce the..Deification, within the compasse of this sense. 1626Donne Serm. lxviii. (1640) 691 Damnabitur (no modification, no mollification, no going lesse) He shall be damned. 1698Norris Pract. Disc. (1707) IV. 226 A Truth, which may be represented nakedly as it is, or with some tenderness and mollification. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 184 In return of all his reciprocal Molifications and Meliorations of some uncouth Points. 1881Daily News 7 Feb., We close the book with some feeling of mollification toward its faults. 1886G. Allen Maimie's Sake xvii, With some faint show of mollification in his softened tone. |