conciliatory

The definition of conciliatory is something done to reconcile or to try to make someone feel better and more pacified.

(adjective)

An example of something that would be described as conciliatory is a handshake after you have just clearly defeated and angered your opponent.

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See conciliatory in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

tending to conciliate or reconcile

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