mollifying

Mollify \Mol"li*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mollified}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Mollifying}.] [F. mollifier, L. mollificare; mollis
   soft + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See {Enmollient}, {Moil},
   v. t., and {-fy}.]
   1. To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness,
      harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the
      ground.
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            With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   2. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited
      feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.
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32 Moby Thesaurus words for "mollifying":
      appeasing, calming, conciliatory, cradling, demulcent, dreamy,
      drowsy, easing, emollient, gentling, hushing, irenic, loosening,
      lulling, pacific, pacificatory, pacifying, placative, placatory,
      propitiative, propitiatory, quietening, reconciliatory, relaxing,
      restful, rocking, softening, soothful, soothing, stilling,
      subduing, tranquilizing