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Definition of Pacifier

1. Noun. Someone who tries to bring peace.

2. Noun. Anything that serves to pacify.

3. Noun. Device used for an infant to suck or bite on.

Definition of Pacifier

1. n. One who pacifies.

Definition of Pacifier

1. Noun. One who pacifies ¹

2. Noun. (American English) A rubber or plastic device imitating a nipple that goes into a baby’s mouth, used to calm and quiet the baby. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pacifier

1. one that pacifies [n -S] - See also: pacifies

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pacifier

pacific islands pacific states pacifical pacifically pacification pacifications pacificator pacificators pacificatory pacificism

pacificisms pacificist pacificists pacifick pacified pacifier (current term) pacifiers pacifies pacifism pacifisms

pacifist pacifist(a) pacifistic pacifistically pacifists pacify pacifying pacing pacing catheter pacings

Literary usage of Pacifier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Historic and Monumental Rome: A Handbook for the Students of Classical and by Charles Isidore Hemans (1874)
"... who preferred the title of pacifier to that of Conqueror; and used incessantly to repeat the maxim " that it was better to preserve the life of a single ..."

2. The Enemy Within: Hitherto Unpublished Details of the Great Conspiracy to by Severance Johnson (1920)
"... Another Oriental pacifier 'In the autumn of 1916, Caillaux thought he saw another opportunity to ascend to power. He believed that the Briand ministry ..."

3. The Life of Leonard Wood by John Gunnlaugur Holme (1920)
"vn pacifier OP THE PHILIPPINES IT IS said that when Henry Morton Stanley returned to the office of the New York Herald after winning world-wide fame by ..."

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