The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mollify \Mol"li*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mollified; p. pr. & vb. n. Mollifying.] [F. mollifier, L. mollificare; mollis soft + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Enmollient, Moil, v. t., and -fy.]
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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. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of mollify English)
Usage examples of "mollifying".
Russian thought in Europe, which perhaps drew their minds away from their personal imbroglio, seems to have had a mollifying effect on the increasingly acrimonious relations between Dostoevsky and his recalcitrant beloved.
Bagnet, with her cloak, basket, and umbrella, goes home, bright-eyed again, to the rest of her family, and the comrades sally forth on the hopeful errand of mollifying Mr. Smallweed.
Upon which Mrs. Bagnet, with her cloak, basket, and umbrella, goes home, bright-eyed again, to the rest of her family, and the comrades sally forth on the hopeful errand of mollifying Mr.