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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I ran into this one recently:
Far too many Christians are passified with little knowledge; they remain on milk never moving on to the meat of the word.
Christian blog
A web search found lots of examples, such as:
Keep the masses passified, distracted, non-thinking, drugged, drunk, and lulled by TV, films, and therefore contented.
discussion of economics
The sodomites simply want our young sons to be passified, believing that gentleness and compassion (minus the Biblical foundation) will make them more productive citizens of the future.
right-wing discussion
It seems the government has us passified…what would the govt have to do to make the people rise up?
Q & A site
It seems eggcornish to me. The perps could be thinking of “pass” in the sense of letting potential grievances just pass by unremarked, passing on doing anything about them.
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Your analysis makes sense to me. There are also a number of site that replace “pacified” with “passivied,” perhaps inserting and invoking the adjective “passive.”
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Good eye, Dixon. Passivist for pacifist was also suggested in Pat’s extraordinary list of also-rans.
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