pacification

English

Etymology

From French pacification.

Pronunciation

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Noun

pacification (countable and uncountable, plural pacifications)

1. The process of pacifying.
   • 1950 March, “The Why and the Wherefore: Railway Electrification in Morocco”, in Railway Magazine, page 214:

     The electrification of the lines radiating from Casablanca originated with the policy of economic penetration and conciliation pursued by Marshal Lyautey for the pacification of Morocco.

Related terms

• pacify

Translations

the process of pacifying

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: pacificación f
• Bulgarian: усмиряване (bg) n (usmirjavane), умиротворяване (bg) n (umirotvorjavane)
• Chinese:

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• Dutch: pacificatie (nl) f
• Finnish: rauhoittaminen (fi)
• French: pacification (fr) f
• Galician: pacificación (gl) f
• German: Befriedung (de) f
• Greek: ειρήνευση (el) f (eirínefsi)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: pasifikasi (id)
• Japanese: 鎮静 (ja) (chinsei)
• Latin: pācātiō f, pācificātiō f
• Latvian: pacifikācija f
• Malay: pendamaian, pengamanan, pasifikasi
• Maori: whakangehenga
• Norwegian: passivisering c
• Polish: pacyfikacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: pacificação f
• Russian: пацифика́ция (ru) f (pacifikácija), умиротворе́ние (ru) n (umirotvorénije), усмире́ние (ru) n (usmirénije), успокое́ние (ru) n (uspokojénije)
• Spanish: pacificación (es) f
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: pacificering (sv) c
• Ukrainian: пацифіка́ція f (pacyfikácija), умиротво́рення n (umyrotvórennja), утихоми́рення n (utyxomýrennja), заспоко́єння n (zaspokójennja)

French

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Noun

pacification f (plural pacifications)

1. pacification

Further reading

• “pacification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.