mollify

mollify englannista suomeksi

1. pehmentää

2. rauhoittaa

0. Verbi

mollify englanniksi

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

2. {{quote-book|en|year=1893|author=Henry George|title=The Condition of Labor: An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII,|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3KU_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA104&dq=mollify|page=104

3. {{quote-book|en|year=1997|title=A Government Reinvented: A Study of Alberta's Deficit Elimination Program,|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=LXyzAAAAIAAJ&q=mollify+concerns|page=408

4. To appease (anger), pacify, gain the will of.

5. {{quote-text|en|year=1867|author=Charles Dickens|title=s:Oliver Twist|chapter=2

6. {{quote-text|en|year=1916|author=L. Frank Baum|title=s:Rinkitink in Oz|chapter=5

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8. {{quote-journal|en|date=January 31 2016|title=Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?|titleurl=http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/01/huma-abedin-hillary-clinton-adviser|journal=Vanity Fair|accessdate=21 January 2016

9. To soften; to make tender

10. 1662, More|Henry More, ''Antidote Against Atheism|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."

11. {{quote-book|en|year=1724|author=William Burkitt|title=Expository Notes, with Practical Observations on the New Testament,|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=NodAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA102&dq=mollify|page=102