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mollify Verb [-fies, -fying, -fied] to make someone less angry or upset; soothe: he sought to mollify his critics [Latin mollis soft + facere to make] mollification n
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This confession, though delivered rather in terms of contrition, as it appeared, did not at all mollify Mrs Deborah, who now pronounced a second judgment against her, in more opprobrious language than before; nor had it any better success with the bystanders, who were now grown very numerous. But the ready-witted Dorothea, who by this time so well understood Don Quixote's humour, said, to mollify his wrath, "Be not irritated at the absurdities your good squire has uttered, Sir Knight of the Rueful Countenance, for perhaps he did not utter them without cause, and from his good sense and Christian conscience it is not likely that he would bear false witness against anyone. But if he should give them notice at Lady Day, Arthur and I must move heaven and earth to mollify him. |
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