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Able to be easily pacified; quick to forgive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1577, Meredith Hanmer (translator), The Auncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, London, The Seventh Booke of the Ecclesiasticall Historye of Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Caesarea in Palaestina, Chapter 17, [...] after that the deuine and celestiall grace of God behelde vs with a placable and mercifull countenance, then our princes, euen they which heretofore warred against vs, after a wonderfull manner chaunged their opinion [...]
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Peaceable; quiet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1799, Isaac D’Israeli, “Mejnoun and Leila, the Arabian Petrarch and Laura,” Part 3 in Romances, London: Cadell and Davies et al., p. 115, I care not for the honour of my friends, and am placable to the insult of an enemy. What is a man, alike incapable of friendship or of enmity?
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Having the effect of pacifying, appeasing or pleasing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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easily calmed or pacified
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: implacable
