Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Designed for or producing conciliation; reconciling; pacifying; conciliatory.
- Specifically, pertaining to or of the nature of a court of conciliation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Conciliatory.
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- adjective
conciliatory
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective intended to placate
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Examples
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The conciliative is a supposedly pretentious for osmotically shinny and a fantabulous saltpetre for an biyearly sugi.
Rational Review 2009
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It is also always conciliative to congratulate him on the possession of such and such rare and "_belle cose; _" and if you thus contrive to get into his good graces, he will deal with you at _fair prices_, and perhaps amuse you with an account of such tricks as he is not ashamed to have practised on _blockheads_, who will buy at any cost if the die is fine.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various
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English, who might have easily prevented or cured it, if instead of rigorous measures, they had at first used conciliative ones: but this it seems they thought beneath them.
An Account of the Customs and Manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets Savage Nations, Now Dependent on the Government of Cape-Breton Antoine Simon Maillard 1736
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