Other forms: mollified, mollifying
To mollify is to soothe somebody's anger. Mollify the critics, somewhat mollified, mollify him with an apology.
It is nearly always about calming a person rather than a feeling, and there is usually a concession involved. The Latin means to make soft, from mollis, soft, which also gives emollient.
1verbmollifyTo soothe somebody's anger.
“The airline tried to mollify angry passengers with free meals and hotel rooms.”
mollify is a soothing.
Latin mollificare means to make soft, from mollis, soft, plus facere, to make.
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰeh₁-
Latin
mollificō
Middle English
mollifien
English, today
mollify
From Middle English mollifien, from Latin mollificō, from Latin mollis (“soft”). by surface analysis, moll- + -ify.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA