Permissive vs Conciliatory - What's the difference?
permissive | conciliatory | Related terms |
willing to conciliate, or to make concessions
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Permissive is a related term of conciliatory.
As adjectives the difference between permissive and conciliatory
is that permissive is giving, or predisposed to give permission; lenient while conciliatory is willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.conciliatory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)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.