Placify
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Placify is a verb meaning (rare) To create a peaceful and calm environment; to make placid.
Meaning
(rare) To create a peaceful and calm environment; to make placid.
More Meanings
- (rare, transitive) To calm (someone), to pacify.
Example Sentences
According to the last accounts from Cattaro, all the southern districts have been placified
and of course seeing the legions of the male massing more and more against me did not tend to placify the combatious little soul,
The money was meant to placify Sean and keep him from going forward with pressing charges or putting together a lawsuit against his attackers.
The present writer has seen two letters of Bishop Wilberforce to Archbishop Longley, one speaking very severely of the Bishop of Cape Town's overbearing; the other chuckling at having ‘placified’ him, though pacifying, he thought, was out of any man's reach.
Word Forms
- placifies
- placifying
- placified
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include placate, pacificate, pacify, appease, repacify, calmen.
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