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Definition of Conciliatory
1. Adjective. Making or willing to make concessions. "Loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet"
Similar to: Yielding
Antonyms: Uncompromising
Derivative terms: Conciliate, Flexibility, Flexibleness
2. 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 Conciliatory
1. a. Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating.
Definition of Conciliatory
1. Adjective. willing to conciliate, or to make concessions ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Conciliatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conciliatory
Literary usage of Conciliatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1800)
"CHAP. VII. Petition from the county of Norfolk. Lord North' t conciliatory
proportions. Two bills brought in thereon. ..."
2. Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed: Military Secretary of Washington, at by William Bradford Reed (1847)
"Lord North introduced his conciliatory propositions into Parliament on the 17th
February, ... The terms of the conciliatory propositions are well known. ..."
3. Memoirs of the Life and Reign of King George the Third by John Heneage Jesse (1867)
"Such was the spirit of the conciliatory scheme, which, in the form of a resolution,
Lord North submitted to the House of Commons. ..."
4. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV., King by Charles Greville (1902)
"... of Government—Duke of Wellington's Conduct towards the Government—The Queen
shot at — Examination of the Culprit—Retrospect of Affairs —conciliatory ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It was apologetic and conciliatory, so worded as to persuade the young emperor
that there was no radical difference between the Catholics and the ..."
6. The Life of Gouverneur Morris: With Selections from His Correspondence and by Jared Sparks (1832)
"The half pay you have fixed at seven years. Most of the officers are discontented
with it, and I am sorry for it.' CHAPTER XI. LORD NORTH'S conciliatory ..."
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