"placation" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1888, “Manners and meals”, in Science, volume 12, number 283, page 3:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1917 April, Jack London, chapter VII, in Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 100:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2006 May 14, Dan DeWalt, “Impeachment is too important to leave to the Democrats”, in OpEdNews.com, retrieved 2009-08-08:",
          "text": "While these political sellout artists have been intoning their mind numbing placations, citizens across the nation have been speaking and acting.",
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