irenical
English
Etymology
From irenic + -al (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’).
Adjective
irenical (comparative more irenical, superlative most irenical)
- Synonym of irenic (“promoting or fitted to promote peace, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful”).
- 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin Books, published 2004, page 40:
- [Andrew Marvell's] irenical moral is the interdependence, if insurmountable quarrelsomeness, of both elements in man's divided nature, rather as in a stormy marriage.
Derived terms
Further reading
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “irenical”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.