APPEASEMENT


Meaning of APPEASEMENT in English

-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

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