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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Conciliatory \Con*cil"i*a*to*ry\ (?; 106), adjective Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating.
The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. --Prescott.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
conciliatory
adjective
1: making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet" [syn: {compromising}, {flexible}] [ant: {uncompromising}]
2: overcoming animosity or hostility; "spoke in a conciliating tone"; "a conciliatory visit" [syn: {conciliative}] [ant: {antagonistic}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "conciliatory": 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
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