conciliant

conciliant

English

Adjective

conciliant (comparative more conciliant, superlative most conciliant)

1. Conciliatory.
   • 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

   • 1965, David Samuel Shwayder, The Stratification of Behaviour: A System of Definitions Propounded and Defended, page 384, Routledge & Kegan Paul

     Conciliant with the strategy of this section, I would stress the following:

   • 2003 October, Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet, Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality, page 250, Oxford University Press

     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.

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• calcitonin

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.si.ljɑ̃/

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Participle

conciliant

1. present participle of concilier

Adjective

conciliant (feminine conciliante, masculine plural conciliants, feminine plural conciliantes)

1. conciliatory
2. manageable, tractable

Further reading

• “conciliant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Verb

conciliant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of conciliō

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Romanian

Etymology

From French conciliant.

Adjective

conciliant m or n (feminine singular conciliantă, masculine plural concilianți, feminine and neuter plural conciliante)

1. conciliatory

Declension

Declension of conciliant

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	conciliant		conciliantă	concilianți	conciliante
	definite	conciliantul		concilianta	concilianții	conciliantele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	conciliant		conciliante	concilianți	conciliante
	definite	conciliantului		conciliantei	concilianților	conciliantelor