pacification
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English pacificacion, from Old French pacification.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pacification (countable and uncountable, plural pacifications)
- The process of pacifying.
- 1682, John Rushworth, Historical collections of private passages[1]:
- The Proteſtants in their Anſwer acknowledged the good-will of the Emperor their Chief, and ſhewed, that the Catholicks ahd oppreſſed them, contrary to the Pacification
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 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.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]the process of pacifying
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References
[edit]- “pacification”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French pacification, from Old French pacification, from Latin pācificātiō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pa.si.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/
Audio (France (Lyon), Lyons): (file) Audio (France (Vosges), Vosges): (file)
Noun
[edit]pacification f (plural pacifications)
Further reading
[edit]- “pacification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Middle French
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French pacification, Latin pācificātiō.
Noun
[edit]pacification f (plural pacifications)
- pacification
- 1479 April 25, Louis XI, Joseph Frédéric Louis Vaesen, Étienne Charavay, Bernard Édouard de Mandrot, Lettres de Louis XI, roi de France, publiées d'après les originaux pour la Société de l'histoire de France[2], Librairie Renouard, H. Laurens, successeur, published 1909:
- Et pour ceste cause, je veil, toutes choses lessées, que vous en aillez incontinent audit lieu et declarez à ceulx du chapitre que mon intencion est qu'ilz procedent à élection en la personne de maistre Augier de Brye, lequel je desire de tout mon cueur qu'il soit pourveu de la dicte église en pacification, et en main d'omme qui me soit feable et agreable.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1564, Jean Nestor, Histoire des hommes illvstres de la maison de Medici: avec vn abbrege des comtes de Bolongne et d'Avvergne[3], Chez Charles Perier:
- conclud finalement qu'il eſtoit preſt de ratiſſier tout ce que la Seigneurie auroit deliberé de faire pour la pacification des troubles aduenus.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
[edit]- French: pacification
References
[edit]- “pacification”, in Anglo-Norman Dictionary, 2nd edition, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: Aberystwyth University, 2001–2026.
- “pacification, noun.” under “pacefiier verb.”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.
- Brachet, A. (1873), “pacification”, in Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co., page 258
- Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “pacification”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “pacification”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 7: N–Pas, page 460
- pacification on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
- J. Thierry (1564), Dictionnaire françois latin, auquel les mots françois, avec les manières d'user d'iceulx, sont tournez en latin[4], I. Macé, page 37
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