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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
    • 1965, David Samuel Shwayder, The Stratification of Behaviour: A System of Definitions Propounded and Defended, Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 384:
      Conciliant with the strategy of this section, I would stress the following:
    • 2003 October, Sarah Stroud, Christine Tappolet, Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality, Oxford University Press, page 250:
      Sometimes our later acts will fit with our old reasons, because the new reasons rationalized by the old will justify only acts conciliant with the old. Other times, our acts will not be conciliant.

References edit

  • OED 2nd edition 1989

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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /kɔ̃.si.ljɑ̃/
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Participle edit

conciliant

  1. present participle of concilier

Adjective edit

conciliant (feminine conciliante, masculine plural conciliants, feminine plural conciliantes)

  1. conciliatory
  2. manageable, tractable

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Verb edit

conciliant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of conciliō

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from French conciliant.

Adjective edit

conciliant m or n (feminine singular conciliantă, masculine plural concilianți, feminine and neuter plural conciliante)

  1. conciliatory

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