placability
(pleɪkəˈbɪlɪtɪ, plæk-)
[ad. L. plācābilitās, f. plācābilis placable: see -ity. Cf. obs. F. placabilité (1577 in Godef.)]
The quality or character of being placable; readiness to be appeased or to forgive; mildness of disposition.
| 1531 Elyot Gov. ii. vi. Placabilitie is no litle part of Benignitie. a 1620 Moryson Itin. iv. iv. i. (1903) 290 All writers commend the Germans..for Modesty, Integrity, Constancy, Placability, Equity, and for Gravity, but somewhat inclyning to the vice of Dullnes. 1741 Middleton Cicero II. xii. 505 He declared nothing to be more..worthy of a great man, than placability. 1839 James Louis XIV, IV. 62 He would endure with dignified placability much irritating opposition. |