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
Wait till you see Augustus, and I am sure he will conciliate your affections.'
From Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
A good administration will conciliate the confidence and affection of the people, and perhaps enable the Government to acquire more consistency than the proposed Constitution seems to promise for so great a country.
From Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Martin Van Buren
If he be really friendly disposed, we will conciliate him by all that lies in our power.
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
But it is a mistake to suppose that mere outlay and splendid festivities will conciliate goodwill—though they go a long way towards it.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
