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conciliant en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Conciliatory.
    • Sometimes our later acts will fit with our old reasons, because the new reasons rationalized by the old will justify only acts conciliant with the old. Other times, our acts will not be conciliant. 2003 October, Sarah Stroud, Christine Tappolet, Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality, Oxford University Press, page 250:
    • 19C, Howard H. Brinton, Quaker Religious Thought: The Quaker Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, volume 1, number 1, Quaker Theological Discussion Group It is a conciliant authority, a joint authority expressed formatively and normatively through Bible, community, and Spirit
    • Conciliant with the strategy of this section, I would stress the following: 1965, David Samuel Shwayder, The Stratification of Behaviour: A System of Definitions Propounded and Defended, Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 384:

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most conciliant Degree=Sup lexicographic
more conciliant Degree=Cmp lexicographic