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Definition of Mollifies
1. mollify [v] - See also: mollify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mollifies
Literary usage of Mollifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"... in all penal statutes passed ex post facto, except where the innovation
mollifies the rigor of the criminal code, justice wears her sternest aspect. ..."
2. The Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man by Robert Bentley Todd, William Bowman (1857)
"... and which some patho- logists have designated mollifies ossium, results from
the dissemination of cancerous matter through the system. ..."
3. Sketches of the Philosophy of Life by Thomas Charles Morgan (1819)
"BONES— Three Types of animal structure—Structure of Bone—Boney Earth—Primordial
Cartilage—Ossification—mollifies Ossium— Mechanical Remarks. ..."
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