conciliate
Conciliate is a often used word, it is more commonly used as reconciliation or reconciliate
/icons/point.icon PACIFY, APPEASE, PLACATE, MOLLIFY, PROPITIATE, CONCILIATE mean to ease the anger or disturbance of.
PACIFY suggests a soothing or calming.
e.g. pacified by a sincere apology
APPEASE implies quieting insistent demands by making concessions.
e.g. appease their territorial ambitions
PLACATE suggests changing resentment or bitterness to goodwill.
e.g. a move to placate local opposition
MOLLIFY implies soothing hurt feelings or rising anger.
e.g. a speech that mollified the demonstrators
PROPITIATE implies averting anger or malevolence especially of a superior being.
e.g. propitiated his parents by dressing up
CONCILIATE suggests ending an estrangement by persuasion, concession, or settling of differences.
e.g. conciliating the belligerent nations
verb with object
1. stop (someone) from being angry or discontented; placate; pacify:
〈人〉をなだめる; 〈人〉を懐柔する, 手なずける
e.g. concessions were made to conciliate the peasantry.
no object act as a mediator:
…を調停する
e.g. he sought to conciliate in the dispute.
formal reconcile; make compatible:
e.g. all complaints about charges will be conciliated if possible.
2. archaic gain (esteem or goodwill):
(友情を示して)〈尊敬･好意など〉を得る
e.g. the arts which conciliate popularity.
DERIVATIVES
conciliative |kənˈsilēədiv| adjective
ORIGIN
mid 16th century (in conciliate (sense 2)): from Latin conciliat- ‘combined, gained’, from the verb conciliare, from concilium (see council).