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Appeasable

Appeasable \Ap*peas"a*ble\, a. Capable of being appeased or pacified; placable. -- Ap*peas"a*ble*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
appeasable

1540s; see appease + -able. Related: Appeasably.

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appeasable

a. Able to be calmed or pacified.

WordNet
appeasable

adj. can be pacified or satisfied [syn: conciliable]

Usage examples of "appeasable".

Them he branded, as hypocritical materialists, and the country for pride in her sweetmeat plethora of them:--mixed with an ancient Hebrew fear of offence to an inscrutable Lord, eccentrically appeasable through the dreary iteration of the litany of sinfulness.

She explained moreover that wherever she happened to be she found a dropped thread to pick up, a ragged edge to repair, some familiar appetite in ambush, jumping out as she approached, yet appeasable with a temporary biscuit.