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PACIFICATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
Synonyms:
counterinsurgency; pacification
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("pacification" is a kind of...):
battle; conflict; struggle (an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals))
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined
Example:
his unsuccessful mollification of the mob
Synonyms:
mollification; pacification
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("pacification" is a kind of...):
appeasement; calming (the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of))
Derivation:
pacify (cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A treaty to cease hostilities
Example:
peace came on November 11th
Synonyms:
pacification; peace; peace treaty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("pacification" is a kind of...):
accord; pact; treaty (a written agreement between two states or sovereigns)
Instance hyponyms:
Peace of Westphalia (the peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648)
Treaty of Versailles (the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans)
Derivation:
pacify (fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location))
