Definitions for: Pacification

[n] actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
[n] the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined; "a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants"; "his unsuccessful mollification of the mob"
[n] a treaty to cease hostilities; "peace came on November 11th"

Webster (1913) Definition: Pa*cif`i*ca"tion, n. [L. pacificatio: cf. F.
pacification. See Pacify.]
The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between
parties at variance; reconciliation. ``An embassy of
pacification.'' --Bacon.

Synonyms: counterinsurgency, mollification, peace, peace treaty

See Also: accord, appeasement, battle, calming, conflict, pact, Peace of Westphalia, struggle, treaty

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