eirenicon

British  

/ aɪˈriːnɪˌkɒn /

noun

1. a proposition that attempts to harmonize conflicting viewpoints

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Etymology

Origin of eirenicon

C19: from Greek, from eirēnikos of or concerning peace, from eirēnē peace

Example Sentences

He rushed out of the room, and the banging door cut short Mr. Legion's eirenicon.

From Masterman and Son by Dawson, W. J. (William James)

This theory of course regards our Epistle as a fabrication of a later generation, intended as an eirenicon.

From Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)

This is the eirenicon of that old strife between the women and the men—that war in which both armies are captured.

From Alfred Tennyson by Lang, Andrew

Hence the Covenant, by being inserted in the Peace Treaty, necessarily lost its value as an eirenicon, and became subsequent to that instrument, and seems likely to be used as an anti-German safeguard.

From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph

No human /eirenicon/ can bridge the gulf of separation.

From Five Sermons by Whipple, H. B.