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Conciliatory vs Conciliant - What's the difference?

conciliatory | conciliant |

As adjectives the difference between conciliatory and conciliant

is that conciliatory is willing to conciliate, or to make concessions while conciliant is conciliatory.

conciliatory

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • willing to conciliate, or to make concessions
  • * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
    • Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.

    Antonyms

    * unconciliatory

    Derived terms

    * conciliatoriness

    conciliant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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 , page 384, Routledge & Kegan Paul
    • Conciliant with the strategy of this section, I would stress the following:
  • * 2003 October, Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet, Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality , page 250, Oxford University Press
    • 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

    * OED 2nd edition 1989

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