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English
Etymology
From irenic + -al (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’).
Adjective
irenical (comparative more irenical, superlative most irenical)
- Synonym of irenic (“promoting or fitted to promote peace, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful”)
2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin Books, published 2004, page 40:[Andrew Marvell's] irenical moral is the interdependence, if insurmountable quarrelsomeness, of both elements in man's divided nature, rather as in a stormy marriage.
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