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    On the morning after the village crier's appeal the men of Umuofia met in the marketplace and decided to collect without delay two hundred and fifty bags of cowries to appease the white man.  (source)
    appease = satisfy (make less angry)
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    Enough guavas to appease even the greediest Island santo for life!  (source)
    appease = satisfy
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    ...the Deep Magic will be appeased.  (source)
    appeased = satisfied (its demands met, so it will not be angry or upset)
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    Descend and appease your hunger with our bread and quench your thirst with our wine.  (source)
    appease = satisfy or calm
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    Mike could have been more graceful about it, but at least Jess seemed appeased.†  (source)
    appeased = satisfied or pacified (made less angry or upset)
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    Bibwit Harte was a loyal fellow, and it was because of his loyalty to Genevieve and Alyss and White Imagination that he determined, then and there, to ensure his own survival by appeasing Redd.†  (source)
    appeasing = satisfying or pacifying (making less angry or upset)
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    And it is the unappeasable pursuit of this note, a note tuned to its most extreme in Emily Dickinson and Paul Celan and orchestrated to its most opulent in John Keats, it is this which keeps the poet's ear straining to hear the totally persuasive voice behind all the other informing voices.†  (source)
    unappeasable = not capable of being satisfied or made less angry or upset
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unappeasable means not and reverses the meaning of appeasable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    We don't have sex, we barely touch, but we are husband and wife in a marital bed, which appeases Amy for now.†  (source)
    appeases = satisfies or pacifies (makes less angry or upset)
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    Mr Merdle didn't want him, and was put out of countenance when the great creature looked at him; but inappeasable Society would have him—and had got him.†  (source)
    inappeasable = not capable of being satisfied
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inappeasable means not and reverses the meaning of appeasable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure. This is a rare derivative of the word. Usually people use "unappeasable."
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    15:18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.†  (source)
    appeaseth = satisfies or pacifies (makes less angry or upset)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She appeaseth" in older English, today we say "She appeases."
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    Billee wagged his tail appeasingly, turned to run when he saw that appeasement was of no avail, and cried (still appeasingly) when Spitz's sharp teeth scored his flank.†  (source)
    appeasingly = in a manner that is satisfying or pacifying
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    Third, by an impressive expression of the public will and without regard to partisanship, we are committed to the proposition that principles of morality and considerations for our own security will never permit us to acquiesce in a peace dictated by aggressors and sponsored by appeasers.†  (source)
    appeasers = people who tend to satisfy or pacify (make less angry or upset) others
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    Inappeasably indignant with her for her triumphant discovery of Mrs. Pegler, he turned this presumption, on the part of a woman in her dependent position, over and over in his mind, until it accumulated with turning like a great snowball.†  (source)
    Inappeasably = with a manner that is not capable of being satisfied
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inappeasably means not and reverses the meaning of appeasably. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure. This is a rare derivative of the word. Usually people use "unappeasably."
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