Placation

Quick meaning: Placation is a noun meaning A process or act of placating; appeasement or an expression of appeasement.

Meaning

A process or act of placating; appeasement or an expression of appeasement.

Example Sentences

While these political sellout artists have been intoning their mind numbing placations, citizens across the nation have been speaking and acting.

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 [a dog] was all placation and appeal, all softness of pleading in a body denied speech that nevertheless was articulate, from wagging tail and wriggling sides to flat-laid ears and eyes that almost spoke, to any human sensitive of understanding.

Word Forms

• placations

Synonyms for placation

Depending on context, synonyms include conciliation, propitiation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include conciliation, propitiation, pacation, assuagement, reappeasement, allaying.

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