pacification

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Concept: Pacification.
Category: 1. Conditional antagonism
Synonyms:
-nouns
pacification, conciliation; reconciliation, reconcilement; shaking of hands, accommodation, arrangement, adjustment; terms, compromise; amnesty, deed of release., peace offering; olive branch; calumet of peace, preliminaries of peace., truce, armistice; suspension of arms, suspension of hostilities; breathing time; convention; modus vivendi; flag of truce, white flag, parlementaire, cartel., hollow truce, pax in bello; drawn battle.
-verbs
pacify, tranquillize, compose; allay (moderate); reconcile, propitiate, placate, conciliate, meet halfway, hold out the olive branch, heal the breach, make peace, restore harmony, bring to terms., settle matters, arrange matters, accommodate matters, accommodate differences; set straight; make up a quarrel, tantas componere lites; come to an understanding, come to terms; bridge over, hush up; make it, make matters up; shake hands; mend one's fences [U.S.]., raise a siege; put up the sword, sheathe the sword; bury the hatchet, lay down one's arms, turn swords into plowshares; smoke the calumet of peace, close the temple of Janus; keep the peace (concord); be pacified; come round.
-adjectives
conciliatory; composing; pacifiedv.
-phrases
requiescat in pace.
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Main Entry: nonviolence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: abstention from violence
Synonyms: nonagression, pacification, pacifism, passiveness, passivity, peaceableness
Main Entry: peace
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: harmony, agreement
Synonyms: accord, amity, armistice, cessation, conciliation, concord, friendship, love, neutrality, order, pacification, pacifism, reconciliation, treaty, truce, unanimity, union, unity
Antonyms: disagreement, disharmony, fighting, war
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Main Entry: peace
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
bloodless, calm, composed, halcyon, incruental, irenic, pacific, pacificatory, pacifist, peaceable, peaceful, tranquil, untroubled
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Concept: Peace.
Category: 1. Conditional antagonism
Synonyms:
-nouns
peace; amity (friendship); harmony (concord); tranquillity (quiescence); truce (pacification); pipe of peace, calumet of peace., piping time of peace, quiet life; neutrality., pax Romana; Pax Americana.
-verbs
-adjectives
pacific; peaceable, peaceful; calm, tranquil, untroubled, halcyon; bloodless; neutral.
-phrases
the storm blown over; the lion lies down with the lamb; "all quiet on the Potomac"; paritur pax bello [Nepos]; "peace hath her victories no less renowned than war"
Antonyms: warfare
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