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make-peace

make-peace is the alternative form of makepeace.

Meaning of makepeace

Noun

makepeace (plural makepeaces)

  1. (rare) A peacemaker; one who reconciles persons at variance with one another; a composer of strife; an adjuster of differences.
    • To be a make-peace shall become my age / Throw down, my son, the Duke of Norfolk's gage.c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, act 1, scene 1
  2. (obsolete) A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for corporal punishment.
    • The civill uſes whereunto the Birch-tree ſerveth are many, as for the puniſhment of Children both at home and at School, for it hath an admirable influence upon them, to quiet them when they are out of Order, and therefore ſome call it Make-peace: The old Roman Magiſirates had it born in bundles...1657, William Coles, chapter CCCXX, in Adam in Eden: Or, Natures Paradiſe, page 594
    Synonyms:
    birch, switch

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Forms of make-peace

pluralmake-peaces

Questions about make-peace

What is make-peace the alternative form of?
Make-peace is the alternative form of makepeace.

Words near make-peace in the dictionary

  1. make-or-break
  2. make-out
  3. make-outs
  4. make-over
  5. make-overs
  6. make-peace
  7. make-peaces
  8. make-readies
  9. make-ready
  10. make-shift
  11. make-shifts

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