Crossword clues for pacification
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pacification \Pa*cif`i*ca"tion\, n. [L. pacificatio: cf. F.
pacification. See Pacify.]
The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between
parties at variance; reconciliation. ``An embassy of
pacification.''
--Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a setting at peace," early 15c., from Middle French pacification "act of making peaceful" (15c.), from Latin pacificationem (nominative pacificatio) "a peace-making," noun of action from past participle stem of pacificare "to pacify" (see pacify).
Wiktionary
n. The process of pacifying.
WordNet
n. the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined; "a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants"; "his unsuccessful mollification of the mob" [syn: mollification]
a treaty to cease hostilities; "peace came on November 11th" [syn: peace, peace treaty]
actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency [syn: counterinsurgency]
Wikipedia
Pacification may refer to:
The restoration of peace through a declaration or peace treaty:
- Pacification of Ghent, an alliance of several provinces of the Netherlands signed on November 8, 1576
- Treaty of Berwick (1639), or Pacification of Berwick, signed on June 18, 1639 between England and Scotland
- Pacification sejm, one of several sessions of the Sejm, especially the one in 1736 concluding the civil war in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Pacification of 1917, between religious and secular sects in the Netherlands
A military or police action:
- Pacification of Algeria (1835-1903), French military operations which aimed to put an end to various tribal rebellions
- Occupation of Araucanía (1861–1883), also Pacification of the Araucanía, the actions which led to the incorporation of Araucanía into Chile
- Pacification of Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia (1930), a punitive action of Polish police against the Ukrainian minority in Poland
- Pacification of Manchukuo, a campaign during the Second Sino-Japanese War (March 1932-1941)
- Pacification operations in German-occupied Poland, the use of German military force to suppress Polish resistance during World War II
- Pacification of Tonkin, a military and political campaign undertaken by the French in northern Vietnam
- Pacification of Wujek, a strike-breaking action against miners in Katowice, Poland (December 16, 1981)
- Dutch intervention in Lombok and Karangasem or Pacification of Lombok in 1894
An analytic approach to understanding the security-industrial complex:
- Pacification theory
A military, political, economic, and social process of establishing or reestablishing control by a government over a population impacted and divided by insurgency.
- Hearts and Minds (Vietnam)
- Winning hearts and minds
A policing, military, political, economic, and social process of establishing or reestablishing control by a government over a population impacted by violent crime.
- Pacifying Police Unit (Rio State, Brazil)
Other meanings:
- Violent Pacification an album by Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
- Army of Cuban Pacification Medal, medal issued to members of the US occupation force in Cuba following the Spanish–American War (1906–1909)
Usage examples of "pacification".
The era of pacification was over and attention could now be given to the deliberate change of indigenous societies in accordance with the prevailing philosophies of government.
Peace prevailed, and the negro conqueror now devoted himself to the complete pacification of the people.
The Czechoslovak President declared that, in order to serve this object and to achieve ultimate pacification, he confidently placed the fate of the Czech people and country in the hands of the Fuehrer of the German Reich.
And presently, noticing it, feeling his sensitive serenity, Domini seemed to see the great Mother at work about this child of hers, Nature at her tender task of pacification.
On the twentieth day of May the king closed the session with a speech, in which he told both houses that a farther convention, touching the execution of the preliminaries, had been made and communicated to him by the emperor and most christian king, and that negotiations were carrying on by the several powers engaged in the late war, in order to settle a general pacification.
Half a million had died breaking the Ankara line in Anatolia, in 1917, and as many more in the grinding campaigns of pacification in the Asian territories after the war.
The British propose Terms of Pacification -- Rejected by the Civil Authorities -- They penetrate the Combahee with their Fleet -- Death of Col. Laurens -- Anecdote of Marion -- Death of Wilmot -- The British evacuate Charleston -- Marion separates from his Brigade at Watboo -- His Military Genius.
Has the pacification of Christians reached the point where illegal immigrants, who are now flooding into host nations, will soon demand not to assimilate but that the native population convert to their religion and their beliefs?
There are also preliminary overviews of Castle Gateway’s role in laborforce procurement for the reconstruction and pacification operations.
More cruisers, more pacifications, had followed, and followed fruitlessly.
The second was a statement of Peacekeeper understanding that granted the Yycroman Hierarch this one-time exemption from the rearmament prohibitions of the Pacification treaty.
They also burned both Santa Ynez and the visible structures at the mines and produced photographs to prove how complete their pacification had been.