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The comfort of the ever-present digital existence translates to knowing others feel the same placation.

There was such a twang of temper in his voice that Crofts heard at once, and made a quick effort at placation.

As a physiologist he believed in the artificial placation of malignant agencies chiefly operative during somnolence.

I recognized at last how far Lucretia in her lonely agony was beyond any trite placation of mine.

For the placation of Bildad Rose there was news of a stable, not ruined beyond service, with hay in a loft, near the house.

In Smith's theory there is confusion between the two ideas of communion and expiation or placation.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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