conciliate
verb (used with object)
to overcome the distrust or hostility of; placate; win over.
will conciliate
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future tenseof conciliate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Faced with giving up benefits, the UAW will conciliate but not placate management, which strikes some Americans as uncooperative.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whether her course will conciliate the free States—whether under such circumstances the free States will negotiate with Virginia or others in her position, I leave for others to consider.
From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden
"At least that will conciliate us all," said Aramis.
From Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas père
"I may just as well tell you once for all, Madge, that nothing will conciliate me but your acceptance of Sir Arthur's kind invitation which we can forward without delay."
From Marguerite Verne by Rebecca Agatha Armour
Wait till you see Augustus, and I am sure he will conciliate your affections.'
From Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
