conciliate
verb (used with object)
to overcome the distrust or hostility of; placate; win over.
conciliates
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present tense formof conciliate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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At any rate it promotes happiness, and conciliates good-will, and these will offset an occasional deception.
From Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves by Horatio Alger
He conciliates them all by nominating a ticket on which the offices are shrewdly distributed; and out of the Babel his “slate” gets the majority.
From Races and Immigrants in America by John R. (John Rogers) Commons
She even conciliated him, as the poor human conciliates his god.
From Old Crow by Alice Brown
He is anxious to make Stoicism available for his friends; he tones down its gratuitous harshness, accommodates, conciliates.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
He had all the air of a roué, yet even roués have often a savor of jolly recklessness about them, which conciliates.
From The Living Link by James De Mille
