gentillication

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Verb

  1. connecting with wildness by creating gentleness out of fierceness, as a beautiful, fierce, part-Egyptian cat who does not like to be touched, but learns to let her owner touch her four times before biting.

Coined by anonymous, June 2017, Arlington, MA