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Webster 1913 Edition


Conciliatory

Con-cil′i-a-to-ry

(?; 106)
,
Adj.
Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating.
The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the
conciliatory
policy.
Prescott.

Webster 1828 Edition


Conciliatory

CONCILIATORY

,
Adj.
Tending to conciliate, or reconcile; tending to make peace between persons at variance; pacific.
The General made conciliatory propositions to the insurgents.
The Legislature adopted conciliatory measures.

Definition 2024


conciliatory

conciliatory

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conciliatory (comparative more conciliatory, superlative most conciliatory)

  1. Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.
    • 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, "Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
      Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.

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