pacificate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Let me commend to readers this little scrap of Note; headed, ‘Methods of Pacificating Germany 1º. There is one ready method of pacificating Germany: That his Britannic Majesty should firmly button his breeches-pocket, “Not one sixpence more, Madam!”—and go home to his bed, if he find no business waiting him at home.[…]’"
- "Shall we not conclude that Minos had by now succeeded in pacificating the Aegean and ridding it of pirates?"
- "In abstraction you have a point, but in case of Iraq - please. It's not a China, it's not a Soviet Union from cold war. Russians have pacificated Chechenya - you could do it in Iraq. 1/3 of the country is on your side."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pācificāt-, the past participial stem of pācificō. Also sometimes an independent back-formation from pacification. For its use by non-native speakers, compare Portuguese and Spanish pacificar and Italian pacificare.