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mollify

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verb/ˈmɒlɪfaɪ/
  1. 1

    To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.

    • mollify someone’s anger
    • attempt to mollify
  2. 2

    To appease anger, pacify, gain the good will of.

    • He tried to mollify the angry customer.
  3. 3

    To soften; to make tender.

    • Nor is it any more difficulty for him to mollifie what is hard, then it is to harden what is so soft and fluid as the Aire.
    • By thy kindness thou wilt melt and mollify his spirit towards thee, as hardest metals are melted by coals of fire […]

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