Mollify1. (v. t.) To soften; to sooth; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.
2. (v. t.) To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.
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