irenicon

British  

/ aɪˈriːnɪˌkɒn /

noun

1. a variant spelling of eirenicon

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Example Sentences

The accordance of a resting-place to Darwin’s remains among England’s illustrious dead in that Valhalla, was an irenicon from Theology to one whose theories, pushed to their logical issues, have done more than any other to undermine the supernatural assumptions on which it is built.

From Project Gutenberg

Last week in Evanston, Ill., ten bishops and 40 ministers and laymen agreed upon an irenicon which they publicly hoped would result in a merger of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Protestant Church which split off in 1828 because of doctrine and administration, and the Methodist Episcopal Church.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, training up a band of disciples, he sent them forth proclaiming the new irenicon.

From Project Gutenberg

The opinions frankly expressed as to theology, metaphysics, and many established orthodoxies; its conclusion, glowing in every page, that metaphysics, as Danton said of the Revolution, was devouring its own children, and led to self-annihilation; its proclamation of Comte as the legitimate issue of all previous philosophy and positive philosophy as its ultimate irenicon—all this, one might think, would have condemned such a book from its birth.

From Project Gutenberg

As it was, it remained the half- uttered irenicon of a few speculative spirits.

From Project Gutenberg