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"
If you mollify someone, you do or say something to make them less upset or angry. The investigation was undertaken primarily to mollify pressure groups. = placate. to make someone feel less angry and upset about something = placate (mollifier, from mollificare, from mollis )