Irenic

Quick meaning: Irenic is an adjective meaning (chiefly theology) Promoting or fitted to promote peace or peacemaking, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful.

Meaning

(chiefly theology) Promoting or fitted to promote peace or peacemaking, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful.

Example Sentences

The idea that the Jews of the region are not genetically distinct from other peoples of the area should be an irenic insight.

The philosophes contrasted their own irenic calls for tolerance with the church's historical record as the perennial source of cruelty and fanaticism.

The current comity between the United States and China, which have little in common except a river of manufactured goods in one direction and dollars in the other, is a recent reminder of the irenic effects of trade.

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 by being brought to a head, begins to be interesting—a helpful third party kindly takes it upon himself to reconcile the disputants, to take the whole matter back to a triviality

Synonyms for irenic

Depending on context, synonyms include irenical, nonpolemical, pacific, dovelike, dovish, non-violent.

Antonyms for irenic

Common opposites include contentious, disputatious, polemic, polemical, agonistic, argumentative.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include peaceful, tranquil, irenical, eirenical, henotic, reconciliative.

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