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pacificator
noun as in peacemaker
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As if Mr. Moller’s job in the police Intelligence Division wasn’t perilous enough, his subsequent portfolio as the host country’s liaison for some 50,000 United Nations envoys and staff would have tested the patience of any referee or pacificator.
I have alluded in a previous chapter to his marvellous career as a pacificator, and it may perhaps not be unjust to assume that his motive in employing his unequalled eloquence in harmonizing discordant factions was not only the Christian desire for peace, but also to remove the obstruction to persecution caused by perpetual strife, for in almost all these movements we may trace the connection between heresy and politics.
A few particulars will suffice to show that the various doctrines, all gathered from and founded on the sayings of Christ, have created discord and persecution among the followers of Jesus, the pretended pacificator of the human race.
Not doubting so great and wise a general, and moreover that the people might believe my authority lawful, I accepted from the Tartar king the title of Pacificator of the South, and the kingdom of Fokien.
When Clay had effected the passage of the bill, the "great pacificator" became more beloved than ever.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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