Conciliative

adj

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Adjective
  1. 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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    intended to placate wordnet

Synonyms

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"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."

Etymology

From conciliate + -ive.

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