Mollify Definition

mŏlə-fī
mollified, mollifies, mollifying
verb
mollified, mollifies, mollifying
To soothe the temper of; pacify; appease.
Webster's New World
To lessen, as in intensity; assuage.
A meeting to mollify concerns about traffic near the new school.
American Heritage
To make less intense, severe, or violent.
Webster's New World
To reduce the rigidity of; soften.
American Heritage

To soften; to make tender.

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Origin of Mollify

  • Middle English mollifien from Old French mollifier from Late Latin mollificāre Latin mollis soft mel-1 in Indo-European roots -ficāre -fy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin molliō (“soften, calm"), from mollis (“soft").

    From Wiktionary

Mollify Sentence Examples

  • In order to mollify the Vatican he conceded the exequatur to forty-five bishops inimical to the Italian regime.

  • There is nothing to show that this conversion was purely political; in any case it did little to mollify his enemies.

  • Nor did an extremely offensive performance of Voltaire's - the solemn partaking of the Eucharist at Colmar after due confession - at all mollify his enemies.

  • In August Marco Minghetti succeeded in forming a military league and a customs union between Tuscany, Romagna and the duchies, and in procuring the adoption of the Piedmontese codes; and envoys were sent to Paris to mollify Napoleon.

  • The producers tried to mollify the fans by changing the tempo and making it a guitar piece in the third and fourth seasons, but that only served to alienate the fans that liked the song to begin with as well as the fans who hated it.

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