1892 Times 19 Sept. 4/4 The Democrats have not been so successful in the art of ‘placating’, for Mr. Cleveland will neither make up with Hill nor does he seem yet inclined to cajole the ‘Tammany tiger’.

1908 Times 25 July 5/6 If there were, on the other side of the House, some disturbed consciences which would be grieved by the easy method of the excision of these few words, he did not wish to prevent the placating of their consciences.

1935 W. Stevens Ideas of Order (1936) 22 Be thou that wintry sound As of the great wind howling, By which sorrow is released, Dismissed, absolved In a starry placating.

1992 P. S. Fiddes Creative Suffering God x. 265 Barth is, nevertheless, surely right to find the centre of the atonement in the cancelling of sin rather than the placating of God's wrath.

1873 J. W. De Forest Wetherel Affair l. 197 John Bowlder had repeatedly attempted to introduce corrections, saying in a humble, placating voice, ‘My friend,’ but falling extinct under the strong utterance of the ‘star’.

1895 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 8 Nov. 3/2 ‘I see that it's a ladder’, said Mrs. Wigglesworth in a placating tone, ‘but what are you going to do with it?’

1911 M. Johnston Long Roll xix. 243 Allen took it calmly, made a placating remark or two, and lapsed into a friendly silence.

1931 E. O'Neill Hunted iv, in Mourning becomes Electra (1932) 171 Hastily, with a placating air.

2003 Brockville (Ont.) Recorder & Times (Nexis) 29 July a6 Canadians should treat those arrests as..a placating gesture meant to gloss over a greater evil.