pacifying
Meaning
of Pacify
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India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video.
A police officer pacifying migrant workers who staged a protest at Sivanandha Colony in Coimbatore city on Tuesday.
Furthermore, these assertions promoted the use of military force as a means of "civilizing" and "pacifying" the "savages".
Therefore, kagura is a rite of tama shizume, of pacifying the spirits of the departed.
The English overlords of Ireland had used forced emigration as a way of pacifying Ireland since the start of the century, but the Cromwellian invasion gave vent to a holocaust in Ireland.