† Locarnizev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To bring about peace in (a region) by negotiation. Also intransitive: to settle a dispute by negotiation.
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society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > make peace [verb (intransitive)]
to make grithc1000
grith11..
to make peace?a1160
peasec1300
to inform the peace?a1400
to bury the hatchet1535
seal1596
pacificate1646
to beat swords into ploughshares1924
Locarnize1925
1925 Washington Post 23 Nov. 7/5 The danger spots on our hapless globe. Will the spirit of Locarno serve to ‘Locarnize’ them?
1926 Glasgow Herald 19 Feb. 8 Sir Austen had called Locarno only a beginning... Some business men, having settled a quarrel among themselves, said that they had ‘Locarnized’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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