Definitions for appeasement
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. appeasement, calmingnoun

   the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of)

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. appeasementnoun

   The state of being appeased; the policy of giving in to demands in order to preserve the peace.

2. Etymology: From apaisement

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Appeasementnoun

   A state of peace.

   Etymology: from To appease.

   Being neither in numbers nor in courage great, partly by authority, partly by entreaty, they were reduced to some good appeasements. John Hayward.

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1. Appeasement

   Appeasement, in an international context, is a diplomatic policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power to avoid conflict. The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of the British governments of Prime Ministers Ramsay MacDonald (in office 1929–1935), Stanley Baldwin (in office 1935–1937) and (most notably) Neville Chamberlain (in office 1937–1940) towards Nazi Germany (from 1933) and Fascist Italy (from 1922) between 1935 and 1939. Under British pressure, appeasement of Nazism and Fascism also played a role in French foreign policy of the period but was always much less popular there than in the United Kingdom.In the early 1930s, appeasing concessions were widely seen as desirable because of the anti-war reaction to the trauma of World War I (1914–1918), second thoughts about the perceived vindictive treatment by some of Germany during the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, and a perception that fascism was a useful form of anti-communism. However, by the time of the Munich Agreement, which was concluded on 30 September 1938 between Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy, the policy was opposed by the Labour Party and by a few Conservative dissenters such as future Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for War Duff Cooper, and future Prime Minister Anthony Eden. Appeasement was strongly supported by the British upper class, including royalty, big business (based in the City of London), the House of Lords, and media such as the BBC and The Times.As alarm grew about the rise of fascism in Europe, Chamberlain resorted to attempts at news censorship to control public opinion. He confidently announced after Munich that he had secured "peace for our time".Academics, politicians.and diplomats have intensely debated the 1930s appeasement policies ever since they occurred. Historians' assessments have ranged from condemnation ("Lesson of Munich") for allowing Hitler's Germany to grow too strong to the judgment that Germany was so strong that it might well win a war and that postponing a showdown was in the best interests of the West.

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1. appeasement

   Appeasement is a political strategy, policy, or behavior adopted to maintain peace and avoid conflict by conceding to the demands of a potential aggressor, even if it is seen as unreasonable or goes against one's own interests or principles. It is often associated with diplomatic negotiations and treaty-making.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

1. Appeasementnoun

   the act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification

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1. Appeasement

   Appeasement in a political context, is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to a dictatorial power in order to avoid a threatened conflict. Appeasement was used by European democracies in the 1930s who wished to avoid war with the dictatorships of Germany and Italy, bearing in mind the horrors of World War I. The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany between 1937 and 1939. His policies of avoiding war with Germany have been the subject of intense debate for seventy years among academics, politicians and diplomats. The historians' assessments have ranged from condemnation for allowing Adolf Hitler's Germany to grow too strong, to the judgement that he had no alternative and acted in Britain's best interests. At the time, these concessions were widely seen as positive, and the Munich Pact concluded on 30 September 1938 among Germany, Britain, France and Italy prompted Chamberlain to announce that he had secured "peace for our time". Since Chamberlain's essentially unsuccessful negotiations with Hitler in 1938, the word "appeasement" has often been used as a synonym for weakness and even cowardice, and the term is still frequently used in reference to these negotiations, as a denouncement of any treaties or international agreements which might appear as a form of "submission" to a threat of aggression, rather than as a "reciprocation" which would instead clearly demonstrate some form of noncooperation with most, if not all of the demands of the would-be aggressor.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of appeasement in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of appeasement in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of appeasement in a Sentence

1. Bill Hagerty:

   I’m very concerned that this appears, that it could be more appeasement from the Biden Administration, more capitulation, huawei is an aggressive predatory company. It’s backed by the Chinese Communist Party. We have given up leverage today.

2. Ted Cruz:

   What Obama has shown to our enemies is weakness and appeasement.

3. William Safire:

   One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

4. Lyndon B. Johnson:

   If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed. (On appeasement)

5. Charles Krauthammer:

   Her job is to adjudicate these issues without consideration for what’s going to happen outside. It looks like appeasement of the mob. We will only know when the evidence eventually comes out.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=appeasement
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appeasement
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=appeasement
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/appeasement
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=appeasement