Meanings
alternative amolishment · alternative amolishments
- no pluralrareSoftening; mollification; appeasing; mitigation.
Origin
- Latin-menta
- Late Latin-mentum
- Latinmollīre“to make soft, soften”
- Frenchmou
- Latinad“to”
- Frenchamollissement
- Englishamollishment
From French amollissement, from amolliss- [extended stem of amollir (“to soften”, verb), from a- {from Latin ad (“to”)} + mollir, from French mou, or from Latin mollīre (“to make soft, soften”)] + -ment (suffix forming nouns from verbs) [from Late Latin -mentum, from Latin -menta]; equivalent to English amollish (see Middle English amolisshen) + -ment.
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