[f. APPEASE v. + -ING1.] (Now mostly gerundial.)
1. The action of pacifying or calming; pacification.
1525–30. More, De quat. Noviss., Wks. 1557, 87/1. Thappeasyng of his minde that is so stricken.
1660. T. M., C. Walker’s Hist. Independency, IV. 55. For the only appeasing whereof, most of the County forces … did speedily march.
† 2. The means of bringing peace or pacification.
1561. T. N[orton], Calvin’s Inst., II. 169. He first loued vs, and sent hys sonne to be the appeasing for our sinnes.
1624. Bedell, Lett., vii. 113. The same … words may be a thanksgiuing for one, and an appeasing of God’s wrath for another.
