Definizione monolingua

mollify

mollify (third-person singular simple present mollifies, present participle mollifying, simple past and past participle mollified)

1. To ease a burden; make less painful; to comfort
2. To appease, pacify, gain the good will of.
   • 1867, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, chapter 2:

     Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle.

   • 1916, L. Frank Baum, Rinkitink in Oz, chapter 5:

     The angry goat was quite mollified by the respectful tone in which he was addressed.

3. To soften; to make tender
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:

     ""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.""

Definizione dizionario mollify

addolcire

ammollire

ammorbidire

calmare

mitigare

placare

Altri significati:

To appease, pacify, gain the good will of.

To cause to be more favourably inclined.

to appease

to ease a burden

To ease a burden; make less painful; to comfort