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appeasement Definition

ap·pease·ment (-mənt)

noun

  1. an appeasing or being appeased
  2. the policy of giving in to the demands of a hostile or aggressive power in an attempt to keep the peace

appeasement Synonyms

appeasement

n.

moderation, satisfaction, peace offering, settlement, amends, accommodation, assuagement, submission, yielding, adjustment, reparation, pacification, alleviation, mollification, conciliation, propitiation, placation, reconciliation, restoration of harmony, mitigation, compromise, grant, giving in.

Antonyms irritation*, excitation*, fomentation.

appeasement Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • terrorist: The Agreement itself is little more than a covert attempt to buy peace by the appeasement of republican terrorists.
  • terrorism: We pay tribute to the stand he has taken since and support his present analysis of the appeasement of terrorism.
  • fascism: In 1945 they were turning their backs on the 1930s and mass unemployment, poverty and the appeasement of fascism.
  • IRA: Terrorists the world over have observed the results of the UK and USA governments ' appeasement of the IRA.
  • aggression: The scheme was widely denounced as appeasement of Italian aggression.

Converse of object

  • oppose: As a Tory student activist he supported republican Spain and opposed appeasement of Hitler.
  • make: He succeeded Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister in 1937 and made appeasement ' famous ' .
  • do: Why did appeasement fail to prevent the outbreak of war in 1939?
  • believe: Another theory is that Chamberlain believed that appeasement was worth trying but that war was inevitable.

Adjective modifier

  • internal: No more internal appeasement, no more loveless marriage ' .
  • similar: Similar appeasement is and a handful who may be i might render.
  • British: By british appeasement of the usa over to broadcast wilshire and seventh.
  • late: As a group we are disgusted with the latest appeasement to terrorists the destruction of the RIR.

Modifies a noun

  • policy: The result of Chamberlain's appeasement policy was the signing of the Munich Agreement.
  • process: But when the state began in 1948, there were greater strains on this appeasement process.
  • humanity: He is the embodiment of the most dangerous appeasement humanity has known since the 1930s.
  • strategy: For the application of this approach to the 1930s appeasement strategy see M. Cowling, The Impact of Hitler, 1975.

Preposition: in

1930s: The Bank may have been guilty of appeasement in the late 1930s.