All 6 Uses of
mollify
in
Vanity Fair
- "Well, Becky would have made a good Lady Crawley, after all," Miss Crawley remarked (who was mollified by the girl's refusal, and very liberal and generous now there was no call for her sacrifices).†
Chpt 15mollified = calmed
- "Dear, dear friend!" she said, with a touch of such natural feeling, that Miss Briggs of course at once began to melt, and even the bathing-woman was mollified.†
Chpt 25
- If his mere past and personal merits did not succeed in mollifying his father, George determined that he would distinguish himself so prodigiously in the ensuing campaign that the old gentleman must give in to him.†
Chpt 26mollifying = calming
- And, going into the other drawing-room, she sat down to the piano and began to sing little French songs in such a charming, thrilling voice that the mollified nobleman speedily followed her into that chamber, and might be seen nodding his head and bowing time over her.†
Chpt 37mollified = calmed
- Lady Grizzel was won by her humility and was mollified towards the little woman.
Chpt 51 *
- Nothing would mollify the horrid man.†
Chpt 53mollify = calm
Definition:
calm someone who is or may become angry or upset