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Definition: MOLLIFYING |
MOLLIFYINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Mollify |
Date "MOLLIFYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1677. (references) |
Crosswords: MOLLIFYING |
| English words defined with "MOLLIFYING": Ramollescence, Remollient. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "MOLLIFYING": mollify. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Very cool and mollifying. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "MOLLIFYING" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "MOLLIFYING" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "MOLLIFYING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | apaisant. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | besänftigend (calming, calming down, placatory, soothing, soothingly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hebrew | רכוך (annealing, maceration, softening). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollifyingmay смягчать смягчающий (mitigating). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-i-i-l-l-m-n-o-y" | |
-1 letter: moilingly. | |
-3 letters: filling, filmily, filming, foiling, lignify, milfoil, milling, million, moiling, mollify. | |
-4 letters: filing, flying, ignify, liming, logily, longly, minify, oilily, oiling, yogini. | |
-5 letters: fillo, filly, filmy, fling, flong, folly, gilly, golly, gonif, goyim, imino, lingo, lingy, lying, mingy, molly, noily, yogin. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 4F 4C 4C 49 46 59 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- .-.. .-.. .. ..-. -.--. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01001111 01001100 01001100 01001001 01000110 01011001 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M O L L I F Y I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 004F 004C 004C 0049 0046 0059 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47494646434059434841 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, französisch, צרפתית, צרפתי, французский |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | allemand, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, немецкий |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, עברי, עברית, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | Russe, russisch, רוסי, русский |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, englisch, א 'לית, английский |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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