pacificacion

See also: pacificación

English

Etymology

From Middle English pacificacion.

Noun

pacificacion (plural pacificacions)

  1. Archaic form of pacification
    • 1548, Edward Hall, Hall's Chronicle: Containing the history of England, during the reign of Henry the Fourth, and the succeeding monarchs, to the end of the reign of Henry the Eighth, in which are particularly described the manners and customs of those periods. Carefully collated with the editions of 1548 and 1550[1], published 1809, page 219:
      Wherfore to begyn a shorte pacificacion in so long a broyle.
    • 1740, A full view of the public transactions in the reign of Q. Elizabeth: Or a particular account of all the memorable affairs of that Queen, transmitted down to us in a series of letters and other papers of state[2], J. Bettenham:
      And becauſe the cardinal of Lorrain hath conjured me to travail for the pacificacion of theſe matters, as much as in me lieth

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French pacification.

Noun

pacificacion (plural pacificacions)

  1. pacification
    • 1472, Edward IV, “King's Letter”, in The Coventry leet book; or mayor's register, containing the records of the city Court leet or view of frankpledge, A.D. 1420-1555, with divers other matters[3], Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., published 1907, page 373:
      And we, intending by alle meanes to vs possible to ordeigne & prouide for the pacificacion, defence, and suretee of the same our land and subgittes
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

  • English: pacification, pacificacion

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