Mollify
Mollify , transitive verb
[French mollifier, Latin mollificare; mollis soft + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Enmollient, Moil, transitive verb, and -fy.]
1.
To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.
With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts.
2.
To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.