The word "placation" is correct and usable in written English.
Basically, it refers to an action or statement made in order to calm or satisfy someone who is angry or upset. For example, "The manager's placation of his employees' concerns helped restore order to the chaotic meeting."
Whether or not next month's elections produce the scripted result Pervez Musharraf continues as president, while Benazir Bhutto becomes prime minister, a job she has held twice already China will have an important role in legitimising the new regime.Similarly, China's other neighbours prefer co-operation and placation to confrontation and hostility.
"The country cannot afford to pay off their regional debt, their bank debt," he wrote on Monday, "and various schemes to avoid the Men in Black from taking over will not work nor will the pleas for 'more Europe' as the words mouthed by Germany are meant for placation only and will not find implementation in any kind of timeline that will make any difference".
You've accused him of excessive ingratiation, or "omnidirectional placation," as you wrote in a blog post for The New York Review of Books.
People come and go" as a placation, seems like a temporary, albeit ineffective resolution.
In an attempt at placation by Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, he wrote on his blog: "We wouldn't share your information in a way you wouldn't want.
With the courtesy that one nation knows for another, the Greeks have trodden a path of conciliation over anger, placation over rancour, humour over hostility.
In medieval Chinese Buddhism, the classical Buddhist understanding of rebirth and transfer of merit merged with traditional practices and beliefs concerning the veneration of ancestors and the placation of potentially troublesome ghosts.
Bill O'Reilly might be setting a new standard for placation presents.
This, the argument goes, only gave license to a particularly large identity group white people to start making demands for a little placation themselves.
The crowd around the fellow laughed, Coonelly walked over to absorb some abuse and offer some encouragement — "Just trust us," and "We're going to build with youth" — before conceding that for long-suffering Pirates fans, placation will come in wins, not words.
