mollification

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

mollification
    n 1: a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered
    2: the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more
       favorably inclined; "a wonderful skill in the pacification of
       crying infants"; "his unsuccessful mollification of the mob"
       [syn: {pacification}, {mollification}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Mollification \Mol`li*fi*ca"tion\, n. [LL. mollificatio; cf. F.
   mollification.]
   The act of mollifying, or the state of being mollified; a
   softening. --Chaucer.
   [1913 Webster]