mollify

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.

   Mollify someone’s anger.

2. 2
   verb

   To appease anger, pacify, gain the good will of.

   He tried to mollify the angry customer.

3. 3
   verb

   To soften; to make tender.

   Nor is it any more difficulty for him to mollifie what is hard, then it is to harden what is so soft and fluid as the Aire.

From Middle English mollifien, from Late Latin mollificō, from Latin mollis (“soft”).

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