irenical

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irenical

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From irenic + -al (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’).

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Synonym of irenic (“promoting or fitted to promote peace, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful”). [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.
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@misc{irenical_2026,
  title = {irenical},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/irenical},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}