irenic
adjective
tending to promote peace or reconciliation; peaceful or conciliatory.
irenical
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a variation of
irenic.
Example Sentences
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The Hook is an ironical melodrama with an irenical moral: Love is the ultimate weapon and the absolute deterrent.
From Time Magazine Archive
To this end various irenical and compromising books were written in the name of the apostles and their helpers.
From Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Washington Gladden
In such a dilemma Schwegler's conjecture, that the irenical or reconciling books were retained, and the partisan writings dropped, is as plausible as any, perhaps more so.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
Those remarks, we would fain make in a humble way irenical.
From What is Darwinism? by Charles Hodge
