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Webster 1913 Edition
Appeasement
Ap-pease′ment
,Noun.
The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification.
Hayward.
Webster 1828 Edition
Appeasement
APPE'ASEMENT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
appeasement
appeasement
English
Noun
appeasement (plural appeasements)
- The state of being appeased; the policy of giving in to demands in order to preserve the peace.
- 1941: Roosevelt, Franklin, White House Correspondents' Dinner
- This decision is the end of any attempts at appeasement in our land; the end of urging us to get along with the dictators, the end of compromise and the forces of oppression.
- 1941: Roosevelt, Franklin, White House Correspondents' Dinner
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the state of being appeased
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