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conciliative

conciliative adjective: conciliatory.

Adjective

conciliative (comparative more conciliative, superlative most conciliative)

  1. conciliatory
    • And this view would have allowed me to express what I believe to be the true import and scriptural idea of Redemption in terms much more nearly resembling those used ordinarily by the Calvinistic divines, and with a conciliative show of coincidence.1825, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: […], London: […] Thomas Davison, […] for Taylor...

Forms of conciliative

comparativemore conciliative
superlativemost conciliative

Origin of conciliative

From conciliate + -ive.

Questions about conciliative

What does conciliative mean?
Conciliative means conciliatory.
What part of speech is conciliative?
Conciliative is an adjective.

Words near conciliative in the dictionary

  1. conciliation
  2. conciliationism
  3. conciliationist
  4. conciliationists
  5. conciliations
  6. conciliative
  7. conciliator
  8. conciliatorily
  9. conciliatoriness
  10. conciliators
  11. conciliatory

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