单词 | reconciliatory |
释义 | reconciliatoryadj. That effects or promotes reconciliation; conciliatory. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > [adjective] > reconciling reconcilinga1500 reconciliatory1581 atoning1609 henotic1615 reconciliating1723 reconciliative1773 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius iii. f. 432 To what vse then auayleth the power and vertue of that reconciliatory Sacrifice betwixt God and vs? 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. L7 (heading) An example Reconciliatorie from one friend to another. 1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 105 Deceiuing both the world, and themselues with shewe of couenants reconciliatory. 1657 P. Heylyn Ecclesia Vindicata 345 After the said Commination there are some certain reconciliatorie Psalms, or Prayers, that follow after. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. xiv. 146 All bless'd the reconciliatory scheme. 1784 J. Brown Compend. Hist. Brit. Churches I. 120 Reconciliatory letters passed betwixt them. 1865 tr. D. F. Strauss New Life Jesus I. ii. x. 74 His statements are sometimes reconciliatory. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xvi. 127 Concerning the reconciliatory nature of the appointed meeting between the two young men, very little could be made of that in young Landless's favour. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 648 A permanent eventuality of reconciliatory union between a schoolfellow and a jew's daughter? 1985 Observer 21 July 4/6 The National Union of Mineworkers' leadership will display a surprisingly reconciliatory face to the Nottinghamshire miners. 2007 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 5 Dec. a22 That was seen..as a very positive and reconciliatory gesture by the Iranian government. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1581 |
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