-mənt noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English appesement, from Middle French apaisement, from Old French, from apaisier + -ment
1.
a. : the act or action of appeasing : pacification
one tribe may go in for the appeasement of local ghosts — W.D.Howells
: conciliation
that we should accept wrong and call it right … would be appeasement at its most cowardly — A.L.Guérard
b. : the state of being appeased : satisfaction
an experience from which he derived little appeasement
2. : a policy of appeasing a potential aggressor
some defensible reasons for the appeasement which London and Paris practiced in the thirties — D.F.Fleming