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conciliant

conciliant adjective: conciliatory.

Adjective

conciliant (comparative more conciliant, superlative most conciliant)

  1. Conciliatory.
    • 19C, Howard H. Brinton, Quaker Religious Thought: The Quaker Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, volume 1, number 1, Quaker Theological Discussion Group
      It is a conciliant authority, a joint authority expressed formatively and normatively through Bible, community, and Spirit
    • Conciliant with the strategy of this section, I would stress the following:1965, David Samuel Shwayder, The Stratification of Behaviour: A System of Definitions Propounded and Defended, Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 384

Forms of conciliant

comparativemore conciliant
superlativemost conciliant

Questions about conciliant

What does conciliant mean?
Conciliant means conciliatory.
What part of speech is conciliant?
Conciliant is an adjective.

Words near conciliant in the dictionary

  1. Concil.
  2. conciliable
  3. conciliables
  4. conciliabule
  5. conciliabules
  6. conciliant
  7. conciliar
  8. conciliarism
  9. conciliarist
  10. conciliarists
  11. conciliarity

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