pacification
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From French pacification.
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pacification (countable and uncountable, plural pacifications)
- 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.
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the process of pacifying
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pacification f (plural pacifications)
Further reading edit
- “pacification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.