mollify Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
    gruntle; placate; appease; conciliate; assuage; gentle; pacify; lenify.
    • She managed to mollify the angry customer
  2. verb make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate
    season; temper.
    • she tempered her criticism
  3. verb make less rigid or softer

WordNet

Mol"li*fy transitive verb
Etymology
F. mollifier, L. mollificare; mollis soft + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Enmollient, Moil, v. t., and -fy.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Mollified ; present participle & verbal noun Mollifying
Definitions
  1. To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.
    With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts. Spenser.
  2. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.

Webster 1913