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Conciliatory definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONCILIATORY, a. 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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet" [syn: compromising, conciliatory, flexible] [ant: inflexible, sturdy, uncompromising]
2: intended to placate; "spoke in a conciliating tone"; "a conciliatory visit" [syn: conciliatory, conciliative] [ant: antagonistic]

Merriam Webster's

adjective see conciliate

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Conciliatory Con*cil"i*a*to*ry (?; 106), a. Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating. The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. --Prescott.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

When you are conciliatory in your actions or behaviour, you show that you are willing to end a disagreement with someone. The President's speech was hailed as a conciliatory gesture toward business. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Reconciling, pacifying, pacific, pacificatory. 2. Winning, persuasive.

Moby Thesaurus

appeasing, benevolent, civilian, dovish, forbearing, forgiving, generous, irenic, kind, long-suffering, longanimous, magnanimous, mollifying, nonaggressive, noncombatant, nonmilitant, nonviolent, pacific, pacificatory, pacifist, pacifistic, pacifying, patient, peace-loving, peaceable, placable, placative, placatory, propitiative, propitiatory, reconciliatory, soothing, sparing, tolerant, unbellicose, uncontentious, unhostile, unmilitant, unmilitary, unresentful, unrevengeful