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  • adjective Pacific. See irenic.

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  • adjective Variant of irenic

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Examples

  • "I see notoriously eirenic Robbie Savage is having a pop at Scottish fitba on Twitter," reports Ryan Dunne.

    Rangers v Manchester United - as it happened Scott Murray 2010

  • Deal with this community in the aforesaid manner, for it cannot make good by itself, if your presence is far removed from it and if you are not in good health, strong, and eirenic in spirit!

    Poems for King Sigismund Matterhorn 2009

  • A visit last night to the Thackeray Gallery in Kensington had much of the same eirenic effect as San Michele's island.

    Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG: 2009

  • Deal with this community in the aforesaid manner, for it cannot make good by itself, if your presence is far removed from it and if you are not in good health, strong, and eirenic in spirit!

    Archive 2009-04-01 Matterhorn 2009

  • We have a sort of eirenic vision of the world in Europe.

    CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2008 2008

  • We have a sort of eirenic vision of the world in Europe.

    Logan Nakyanzi Pollard: Do Americans Think - Or Just Act? 2008

  • And he could be no less firm about aspects of liturgy of which he disapproved: his theology was never angular or sectarian (remember his generous support of the liturgical experiments of his successor as Dean of Clare, John Robinson), but there was a clear, eirenic but firm foundation in Protestant principle that made him very uneasy with what he regarded as the drip-feed of some sorts of Catholicising devotion into Anglican practice.

    Sermon for the Life and Work of the Revd Prof CFD Moule 2008

  • We have a sort of eirenic vision of the world in Europe.

    CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2008 2008

  • His manner too, in spite of the probable eirenic scope of his work, is that of a special pleader for paganism who uses all the resources of dialectic and rhetoric, all the artifices of wit and sarcasm to make his opponents seem ridiculous.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • Aberdeen (historically the most natural place for such a purpose, for it was the city of the "Aberdeen Doctors" and their eirenic efforts) a conference -- modest, unofficial, tentative -- yet truly representative of the Church of Scotland, of the United Free Church, and of the Scottish

    The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918 1911

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