Conciliate
[kən'sɪlɪeɪt] or [kən'sɪlɪet]
Definition
(v. t.) To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Propitiate, reconcile, pacify, appease.[2]. Win, gain, engage, draw over, win over.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Win, gain, enlist, pacify, make_friendly, reconcile, propitiate
ANT:Lose, estrange, excommunicate, eject, alienate, irritate, displease
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Definition
v.t. to gain or win over: to gain the love or good-will of such as have been indifferent or hostile: to pacify.—v.i. to make friends.—adj. Concil′iable (obs.).—n. Conciliā′tion act of conciliating.—adj. Concil′iātive.—n. Concil′iātor.—adj. Concil′iatory.
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Examples
- How we shall conciliate this little creature, said Mrs. Bretton to me, I don't know: she tastes nothing, and by her looks, she has not slept. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Elizabeth disdained the appearance of noticing this civil reflection, but its meaning did not escape, nor was it likely to conciliate her. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- From the first he had sought to conciliate that gentleman, for the sake of the deserted girl. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- If they had known about us, you might have felt yourself called upon to conciliate them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And so having easily won the daughter's good-will, the indefatigable little woman bent herself to conciliate the august Lady Southdown. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She seemed to respect him and even to wish to conciliate him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Concede, conciliate, is their motto wherever he is concerned. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Her air was not conciliating, nor was her manner of receiving them such as to make her visitors forget their inferior rank. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Instead of softening and conciliating, they but embolden and harden them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yet his manners are so conciliating and gentle, that the sailors are all interested in him, although they have had very little communication with him. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- With what dread force the conviction would grasp me that Fate was my permanent foe, never to be conciliated. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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