"emollience" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: emolliences [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} emollience (usually uncountable, plural emolliences)
  1. The state or quality of being emollient; soothingness; softness. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-emollience-en-noun-QTjumy9P Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 46
  2. The act of soothing or appeasing; mollification. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-emollience-en-noun-Vec1stvR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 46

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2011, Alistair Campbell, Power & The People 1997-1999: The Alistair Campbell Diaries Volume 2, Hutchinson, page 528",
          "text": "TB [Tony Blair] felt we had to combine emollience of tone with the clear drive and direction of continuing reform.",
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          "ref": "2011, Jonathan Haslam, Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall, Yale University Press, page 34",
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          "ref": "2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir, Signal, published 2011, page 202",
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          "ref": "2012, Blair Worden, God's Instruments: Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell, Oxford University Press, page 180",
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