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Mollifying; softening.

MOLLIFY
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. Spenser. 2. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as
SOFTEN
To make soft or more soft. Specifically: -- To render less hard; -- said of matter. Their arrow's point they soften in the flame. Gay. To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable. Diffidence conciliates the proud, and softens the severe. Rambler.
SOFTENING
from Soften, v. Softening of the brain, or Cerebral softening , a localized softening of the brain substance, due to hemorrhage or inflammation. Three varieties, distinguished by their color and representing different stages of the morbid process,