Associations to the word «Pacification»

Wiktionary

PACIFICATION, noun. The process of pacifying.

Dictionary definition

PACIFICATION, noun. 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".
PACIFICATION, noun. A treaty to cease hostilities; "peace came on November 11th".
PACIFICATION, noun. Actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats