pacification

From French pacification.

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pacification (countable and uncountable, plural pacifications)

1. The process of pacifying.
   • 1682, John Rushworth, Historical collections of private passages‎^[1]:

     The Proteſtants in their Anſwer acknowledged the good-will of the Emperor their Chief, and ſhewed, that the Catholicks ahd oppreſſed them, contrary to the Pacification

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   • 1950 March, “The Why and the Wherefore: Railway Electrification in Morocco”, in Railway Magazine, page 214:

     The electrification of the lines radiating from Casablanca originated with the policy of economic penetration and conciliation pursued by Marshal Lyautey for the pacification of Morocco.

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pacification f (plural pacifications)

1. pacification

• “pacification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.