Placatory vs Placation - What's the difference?
placatory | placation | Derived terms |
That placates; pacifying.
* 1980 , Marguerite Johnson et al.'' , "
A process or act of placating; appeasement or an expression of appeasement.
* 1888 , "Manners and meals," Science , vol. 12, no. 283,
* 1917 , , Jerry of the Islands , ch. 7:
* 2006 , Dan DeWalt, "
Placatory is a derived term of placation.
As a adjective placatory
is that placates; pacifying.As a noun placation is
a process or act of placating; appeasement or an expression of appeasement.placatory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Trying to Tighten the Noose," ''Time , 27 Oct.:
- While placatory on the hostages, Raja'i dismissed any possibility of a ceasefire in the war.
Synonyms
* placativeplacation
English
Noun
(en noun)p. 3:
- The refusal, at certain times and seasons, of food that in itself is hygienically good and palatable, in placation of a deity, or, without further explanation, to avoid bad luck, is well known among the lower tribes of men.
- Instead, Jerry was all placation and appeal, all softness of pleading.
Impeachment is too important to leave to the Democrats," OpEdNews.com , 14 May (retrieved 8 Aug. 2009):
- While these political sellout artists have been intoning their mind numbing placations , citizens across the nation have been speaking and acting.
