Conciliatory vs Reconcile - What's the difference?
conciliatory | reconcile |
willing to conciliate, or to make concessions
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To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
To make things compatible or consistent.
* Alexander Pope
* John Locke
To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
As an adjective conciliatory
is willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.As a verb reconcile is
to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.conciliatory
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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.
Antonyms
* unconciliatoryDerived terms
* conciliatorinessreconcile
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(reconciliation)Verb
(reconcil)- to reconcile people who have quarrelled
- to reconcile differences
- Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, / Considered singly, or beheld too near; / Which, but proportioned to their light or place, / Due distance reconciles to form and grace.
- The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.