irenic
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adjective Fitted or designed to promote peace; pacific; conciliatory; peaceful.
Examples
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During one episode of "Firing Line," Buckley used the word "irenic," provoking his seething guest to demand why he didn't just say "peaceful."
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Most have taken that as a reference to the false illusion of an irenic future that Disney offers.
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As celebrations of non-denominational and undifferentiated spirituality, they were irenic, life-affirming, even moving.
William Astore: In Place of Mental Health Care, Are Some Troops Being Evangelized?
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In the words of a historian of America's foreign relations, "Although the United States was of all perhaps the least directly interested in the subject matter of dispute, and might appropriately have held aloof from the meeting altogether, its representatives were among the most influential of all, and it was largely owing to their sane and irenic influence that in the end a treaty was amicably made and signed."
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Of an irenic temper, he belonged to the category of those souls who easily persuade themselves that obedience is the first of virtues, that every superior is a saint; and if unluckily he is not, that we should none the less act as though he were.
Note
The word 'irenic' comes from a Greek word meaning 'peace'.
