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Irenical

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of irenic (“promoting or fitted to promote peace, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful”).

    "[Andrew Marvell's] irenical moral is the interdependence, if insurmountable quarrelsomeness, of both elements in man's divided nature, rather as in a stormy marriage."

Etymology

From irenic + -al (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’).

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