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Mollify 1100 Words You Need Week 43 Day 3

Mollify 1100 Words You Need Week 43 Day 3

Mollify 1100 Words You Need Week 43 Day 3

/ˈmɒl.ɪ.faɪ/ (verb)

to make someone less upset or angry, soothe, calm down, allay, soften, appease, reduce the severity of, placate, pacify, conciliate, mitigate, assuage, alleviate, quell, moderate

Although, interestingly enough, an entire judicial system (equity) was built upon the need to mitigate the harshness of rigid rules of law on particular litigants. (“‘The office of the chancellor is to correct men’s consciences for frauds, breaches of trust, wrongs and oppressions of what nature soever they be, and to soften and mollify the extremity of the law.’”. Protecting the individual litigant, however, may also provide benefit to those who, although represented in the collective entity in the suit against that particular plaintiff, may on another day be injured litigants themselves.

Source: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/

Antonym: enrage

Noun: mollification, mollifier

Adverb: mollifyingly

Adjective: mollifying, mollifiable

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