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Definition of Pacifiable
1. a. Capable of being pacified or appeased; placable.
Definition of Pacifiable
1. Adjective. capable of being pacified ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pacifiable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pacifiable
Literary usage of Pacifiable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... pacifiable. propitiate: pacify. propitiatory: pacific. [able. propitious:
auspicious, favor- ..."
2. Colonial Prose and Poetry by William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells (1903)
"... death and pestilence; I say, I humbly and earnestly beseech you to be willing
to be pacifiable, willing to be reconcilable, willing to be sociable, ..."
3. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips (1826)
"... suffocated with hay and smothered with kisses ; and Irish hay-makers seem very
indignant, but are pacifiable by penny subscriptions for the havoc made. ..."
4. Memoir of Roger Williams: The Founder of the State of Rhode-Island by James Davis Knowles (1834)
"... death and pestilence ; I say humbly and earnestly beseech you to be willing
to be pacifiable, willing to be reconcilable, willing to be sociable, ..."
5. The Ecclesiastical History of New England: Comprising Not Only the Religious by Joseph Barlow Felt (1862)
"... long musing how 1 might bring water to quench, and not oil or fuel to the
flame, I am now humbly bold to beseech you to be willing to be pacifiable. ..."
6. The Ecclesiastical History of New England: Comprising Not Only the Religious by Joseph Barlow Felt (1862)
"... I am now humbly bold to beseech you to be willing to be pacifiable. The Colony
now looks with the torn face of two parties, and that the greater number ..."
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