conciliatory

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  • (US) IPA(key): /kənˈsɪl.i.əˌtɔɹ.i/
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conciliatory (comparative more conciliatory, superlative most conciliatory)

  1. Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.
    • 1838 (date written), L E L[andon], chapter XVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. , volume I, London: Henry Colburn, , published 1842, →OCLC, page 218:
      Lady Anne checked herself, for she heard a carriage stop at the door, and her daughters enter the house; and she had not made up her mind as to the turn she should give to their conciliatory visit.
    • 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in 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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