Today's Word "mollify"
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mollify \MOL-uh-fy\ (transitive verb) - 1 : To pacify; to soothe or calm in temper or disposition. 2 : To reduce in intensity; to temper. 3 : To soften; to reduce the rigidity of.
"...Doubtless she had poisoned my beer with something intended to mollify me, to mollify Molloy, with the result that I was nothing more than a lump of melting wax, so to speak." -- Samuel Becket, 'Molloy'
Mollify comes from Middle French mollifier, ultimately from Latin mollis, "soft."
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