mollify

pehmentää

rauhoittaa To ease a burden, particularly worry; make less painful; to comfort.
1893, (w), The Condition of Labor: An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII, https://books.google.com/books?id=3KU_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA104&dq=mollify p. 104:

All that charity can do where injustice exists is here and there to somewhat mollify the effects of injustice.

The draft Charter School Handbook issued in November 1994 sought to mollify concerns over teacher quality, if not ATA membership, by requiring teacher certification.

Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle.

The angry goat was quite mollified by the respectful tone in which he was addressed.

But these answers did not mollify Grassley. Specifically, he objected to Abedin’s becoming an S.G.E., because he believed she provided no irreplaceable expertise and therefore her designation as one had violated Congress’s intent when it created the program, in 1962.

"Nor is it any more difficulty for him to mollifie what is hard, then it is to harden what is so soft and fluid as the Aire."

By thy kindness thou wilt melt and mollify his spirit towards thee, as hardest metals are melted by coals of fire …