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placability|pleɪkəˈbɪlɪtɪ, plæk-|
[ad. L. plācābilitās, f. plācābilis placable: see -ity. Cf. obs. F. placabilité (1577 in Godef.)]
The quality or character of being placable; readiness to be appeased or to forgive; mildness of disposition.
1531Elyot Gov. ii. vi. Placabilitie is no litle part of Benignitie. a1620Moryson Itin. iv. iv. i. (1903) 290 All writers commend the Germans..for Modesty, Integrity, Constancy, Placability, Equity, and for Gravity, but somewhat inclyning to the vice of Dullnes. 1741Middleton Cicero II. xii. 505 He declared nothing to be more..worthy of a great man, than placability. 1839James Louis XIV, IV. 62 He would endure with dignified placability much irritating opposition. |