All 4 Uses of
conciliatory
in
Bleak House
- I hope it is not unkind in me to say that she certainly did make, in this as in everything else, a show that was not conciliatory of doing charity by wholesale and of dealing in it to a large extent.†
Chpt 7-9
- On our way home, I so conciliated Peepy's affections by buying him a windmill and two flour-sacks that he would suffer nobody else to take off his hat and gloves and would sit nowhere at dinner but at my side.†
Chpt 13-15
- She seemed to respect him and even to wish to conciliate him.
Chpt 16-18 *conciliate = build trust with
- "Why this," returns George, not able to be very conciliatory at first, "is Matthew Bagnet, who has obliged me in that matter of ours, you know."†
Chpt 34-36
Definition:
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(conciliatory) intended to end bad feelings or build trust