OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 19274

irenic

/aɪˈɹiːnɪk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
irénico
Promoting or fitted to promote peace or peacemaking, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful.
Plato and the Athenians must have felt almost as uncomfortable with Xenophon's irenic intervention as one feels at times in an argument when—just as the point in dispute, precisely…
The idea that the Jews of the region are not genetically distinct from other peoples of the area should be an irenic insight.
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