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Mollify vs Slake - What's the difference?

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Mollify is a related term of slake.


As verbs the difference between mollify and slake

is that mollify is to ease a burden, particularly worry; make less painful; to comfort while slake is .

mollify

English

Alternative forms

* mollifie

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To ease a burden, particularly worry; make less painful; to comfort.
  • * 1893 , (Henry George), The Condition of Labor: An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII, p. 104:
  • *:All that charity can do where injustice exists is here and there to somewhat mollify the effects of injustice.
  • * 1997 , A Government Reinvented: A Study of Alberta's Deficit Elimination Program, p. 408:
  • *:The draft Charter School Handbook issued in November 1994 sought to mollify concerns over teacher quality, if not ATA membership, by requiring teacher certification.
  • To appease (anger), pacify, gain the good will of.
  • * 1867 , , chapter 2:
    • Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle.
  • * 1916 , , chapter 5:
    • The angry goat was quite mollified by the respectful tone in which he was addressed.
  • To soften; to make tender
  • * 1662 , , 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."
  • * 1724 , (William Burkitt), Expository Notes, with Practical Observations on the New Testament, p. 102:
  • *:By thy kindness thou wilt melt and mollify his spirit towards thee, as hardest metals are melted by coals of fire …

    • Synonyms

    * (to ease a burden) assuage, calm, comfort, mitigate, soothe * (to appease) appease, conciliate, pacify, placate, propitiate, satisfy * See also

    Related terms

    * emollient * mollification

    slake

    English

    Verb

    (slak)
  • *Sir (c.1569-1626)
  • *:When the body's strongest sinews slake .
  • *:
  • *:wherfor the quene waxed wroth with sir Launcelot / and vpon a day she called sir launcelot vnto her chamber and saide thus / Sir launcelot I see and fele dayly that thy loue begynneth to slake / for thou hast no Ioye to be in my presence / but euer thou arte oute of thys Courte
  • To go out; to become extinct.
  • *(Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
  • *:His flame did slake .
  • (label) To satisfy (thirst, or other desires); to quench; to extinguish.
  • *
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:slake the heavenly fire
  • (label) To cool (something) with water or another liquid.
  • *1961 , (Lawrence Durrell), , p.14:
  • *:Notes for landscape tones. Long sequences of tempera. Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet smelling brick dust and the odour of hot pavements slaked with water.
  • (label) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
  • :
  • (label) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
  • :

    • Derived terms

    * slaked * slake trough

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