PACIFICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pacification mean? 

• PACIFICATION (noun)
  The noun PACIFICATION has 3 senses:

1. the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined

2. a treaty to cease hostilities

3. actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency

  Familiarity information: PACIFICATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PACIFICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

mollification; pacification

Context example:

his unsuccessful mollification of the mob

Hypernyms ("pacification" is a kind of...):

appeasement; calming (the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of))

Derivation:

pacify (cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A treaty to cease hostilities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

pacification; peace; peace treaty

Context example:

peace came on November 11th

Hypernyms ("pacification" is a kind of...):

accord; pact; treaty (a written agreement between two states or sovereigns)

Instance hyponyms:

Peace of Westphalia (the peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648)

Treaty of Versailles (the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans)

Derivation:

pacify (fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

counterinsurgency; pacification

Hypernyms ("pacification" is a kind of...):

battle; conflict; struggle (an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals))