Plication vs Placation - What's the difference?
plication | placation |
*2004 , Richard Fortey, The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 96:
*:But the recognition of nappes set out the research project: you need not simply throw up your hands in despair at perverse plications and ceaseless crenelations in the Alps.
(medicine) A surgical procedure in which a body part is strengthened or shortened by pulling together folds of excess material, and suturing them into place.
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, "
As nouns the difference between plication and placation
is that plication is an act of folding while placation is a process or act of placating; appeasement or an expression of appeasement.plication
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* plicatureplacation
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(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.