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Mollification

noun

A state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered.

The act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined. Synonym: pacification. "His unsuccessful mollification of the mob"

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... toddling after her, should have done this grievous thing. To say that she had always been flighty, and that it was what might have been expected of a woman as headstrong as she had been as a girl, was no mollification of the blow to the local conscience, acutely sensitive in all that pertained to the honor and sanctity of the marriage tie. And Jack Holton! That she should have thrown away a man like Tom Kirkwood, a gentleman ...

— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson

... a reputable man, and with a child still toddling after her, should have done this grievous thing. To say that she had always been flighty, and that it was what might have been expected of a woman as headstrong as she had been as a girl, was no mollification of the blow to the local conscience, acutely sensitive in all that pertained to the honor and sanctity of the marriage tie. And Jack Holton! That she should have thrown away a man like Tom Kirkwood, a gentleman ...

— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson

... with the Secretary this morning, when I laid before the latter Bragg's dispatch. I doubt not it failed to contribute to a mollification of ...

— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones