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Pacification

Pain (See SUFFERING.)
Aegir
sea god, stiller of storms on the ocean. [Norse Myth.: Leach, 16]
Feng
name taken by Odin in capacity of wave-stiller. [Norse Myth.: LLEI, I: 328]
Saul and David
David plays his harp to mollify King Saul. [O.T.: I Samuel 16:16, 23]
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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No sooner was this act of pacification exchanged, than John proceeded to discharge the duty on which he had come.
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Abiram, however, who, since the pacification, either felt, or affected to feel, a more generous interest in his late adversary, saw fit to express an anxiety, to which the others were strangers--
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ISLAMABAD -- Despite hectic efforts and even a meeting with opposition delegation including Syed Khurshid Ali Shah and others, chairman Senate, Nayyar Hussain Burkhart's pacifications endeavours failed.
Chairman Senate fails to pacify protesting opposition

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