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Definition of Conciliating
1. conciliate [v] - See also: conciliate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conciliating
Literary usage of Conciliating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the Monks as a by Charles Swan (1824)
"We receive many warnings, but not attending to them, are eternally destroyed.
TALE XVIII. OF conciliating GOD WHILST WE HAVE OPPORTUNITY. ..."
2. The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies by Bryan Edwards, Daniel M'Kinnen (1805)
"conciliating conduct of Charles II. on his restoration.—First establishment of
a regular government in Jamaica.—Lord Windsor's appointment. ..."
3. History of the United States of America Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1910)
"... futile effort to compose differences with Spain.2 Meantime, to await further
developments abroad, and in token of a conciliating national disposition, ..."
4. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1812)
"Measures adopted by the Legislature for conciliating the Attachment of the Irish
Nation. ... conciliating ..."
5. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1825)
"His Situation there very uneasy and unpleasant.—.. The Measures adopted for
conciliating the Spaniards, by Joseph, condemned by Napoleon. ..."
6. Essays on the Principles of Morality and on the Private and Political Rights by Jonathan Dymond (1896)
"... Officers of the public—Transfer of their rights by a whole people—The people
hold the sovereign power—Rights of Governors—A conciliating system. II. ..."
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