'Placating' definitions:
Definition of 'placating'
adjective
Intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions; "the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich"; "placating (or placative) gestures"; "an astonishingly placatory speech" [syn: appeasing(a), placating,
placative,
placatory]
Definition of 'Placating'
- Placate \Pla"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Placated; p. pr. & vb.
n. Placating.] [L. placatus, p. p. of placare to placate,
akin to placere to please. See Please.]
To appease; to pacify; to concilate. "Therefore is he always
propitiated and placated." --Cudworth.
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