placation

Noun

placation (countable and uncountable, plural placations)

1. A process or act of placating; appeasement or an expression of appeasement.
   • The refusal, at certain times and seasons, of food that in itself is hygienically good and palatable, in placation of a deity, or, without further explanation, to avoid bad luck, is well known among the lower tribes of men.1888, “Manners and meals”, in Science, volume 12, number 283, page 3
   • Instead, Jerry [a dog] was all placation and appeal, all softness of pleading in a body denied speech that nevertheless was articulate, from wagging tail and wriggling sides to flat-laid ears and eyes that almost spoke, to any human sensitive of understanding.1917 April, Jack London, chapter VII, in Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 100