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appeasement

noun
/əˈpiːz.mənt/

Etymology

From Middle English appesement, from Old French apaisement.

  1. derived from apaisement
  2. inherited from appesement

Definitions

  1. The state of being appeased

    The state of being appeased; the policy of giving in to demands in order to preserve the peace.

    • This decision is the end of any attempts at appeasement in our land; the end of urging us to get along with the dictators, the end of compromise with tyranny and the forces of oppression.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at appeasement. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at appeasement. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at appeasement

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA