pacific
English
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Alternative forms
- pacifick (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle French pacifique.
Pronunciation
Adjective
pacific (comparative more pacific, superlative most pacific)
- Calm, peaceful.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:calm
- Preferring peace by nature; avoiding violence.
- 1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 3:
- The long-continued hostilities which had for centuries divided the south and the north divisions of the Island of Britain, had been happily terminated by the succession of the pacific James I, to the English crown.
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