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Definition of Conciliative
1. Adjective. Intended to placate. "A conciliatory visit"
Similar to: Appeasing, Placating, Placative, Placatory, Pacific, Propitiative, Propitiatory, Soft
Derivative terms: Conciliate, Conciliate, Conciliate
Antonyms: Antagonistic
Definition of Conciliative
1. a. Conciliatory.
Definition of Conciliative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conciliative
Literary usage of Conciliative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Philosophy of Government by Alpheus Henry Snow (1921)
"therefore, to study the imperfect conciliative processes of the present cooperative
federation of nations with a view to perfecting them, having in mind ..."
2. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1839)
"To the conciliative he will, to the best of his endeavour, give exercise in every
case ; to the punitive, at the charge of either or both, if, ..."
3. The Foreign Relations of the United States by Henry Raymond Mussey, Academy of Political Science (U.S.) (1917)
"Under an international conciliative directorate, international legislation would
be effected, as at present, by the conventional enactments of conferences ..."
4. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1917)
"The society of nations already is organized to a considerable extent on conciliative
and cooperative principles, and there is a growing appreciation of the ..."
5. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North (1918)
"... thus forming public sentiment, to use it in bringing moral pressure to bear
on a nation resisting the conciliative action of the international body. ..."
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