Pacify vs Peaceable - What's the difference?
pacify | peaceable |
To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.
To appease (someone).
Favouring peace rather than conflict; not aggressive, tending to avoid violence (of people, actions etc.).
* 1999 , Faisal Bodi, The Guardian , 29 Dec 1999:
* 2011 , ‘Feeling understandably twitchy’, The Economist , 8 Feb 2011:
Characterized by peace; peaceful, tranquil.
* , Episode 16:
As a verb pacify
is to bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.As an adjective peaceable is
favouring peace rather than conflict; not aggressive, tending to avoid violence (of people, actions etc).pacify
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(en adjective)- But in the Muslim world we are dealing with regimes who have banished, imprisoned, silenced or neutralised all opposition, even where this is entirely peaceable .
- But if you talk to people here privately, they suggest there are three possible scenarios. The first (intended to sound incredible) is that Israel’s biggest neighbour will be transformed into a peaceable , pluralist democracy.
- Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head [...].