reconciliatory love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Able or tending to reconcile.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Serving or tending to reconcile.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective that reconciles

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Examples

  • Although the location of the fictive city between recalls the reconciliatory tone from the tempietti below, the imagery of the east wall alludes even more directly to one of several themes that enlace the studiolo.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • What is more, Oothoon's metaphor of visual or visionary copulation mitigates against the dualism of an Enlightenment philosophy that represents mentality rather than biology as "characteristic of the human and ... what is 'fully and authentically' human" (Plumwood 169); for, by conceptualizing aesthetic apprehension in terms of sexual communion, her metaphor strives imaginatively to bring human biological and mental aspects into a kind of reconciliatory unison.

    Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ 2001

  • Observers described Sarkozy's speech as "reconciliatory", but Clinton's promises received less enthusiasm, with some NGOs describing it as weak, and with too many strings attached.

    Mail & Guardian Online 2009

  • The sources described the mood of the meeting as "reconciliatory" as Raila seemed to have ceded ground.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2008

  • "reconciliatory" talks about the future, and Commonwealth chief Don

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • Simply put, she embodies the need for an inclusive and reconciliatory peace process in Afghanistan and, more broadly, women's inclusion in peace-making processes throughout the world.

    Azita Ranjbar: Seems To Be Sima Azita Ranjbar 2010

  • Simply put, she embodies the need for an inclusive and reconciliatory peace process in Afghanistan and, more broadly, women

    Azita Ranjbar: Seems To Be Sima Azita Ranjbar 2010

  • Simply put, she embodies the need for an inclusive and reconciliatory peace process in Afghanistan and, more broadly, women's inclusion in peace-making processes throughout the world.

    Azita Ranjbar: Seems To Be Sima Azita Ranjbar 2010

  • Hamas has often been accused of making reconciliatory pronouncements in English, and very militant ones in Arabic.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Things People Say 2009

  • Simply put, she embodies the need for an inclusive and reconciliatory peace process in Afghanistan and, more broadly, women's inclusion in peace-making processes throughout the world.

    Azita Ranjbar: Seems To Be Sima Azita Ranjbar 2010

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