irenic

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Respond with irenic understanding, and you’re treating her as a patient or a puppet, someone acted upon and controlled by larger forces.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2022

The light filtering through the front door toward which Melrose walks is redemptive, the opening bars of Blur’s “Tender,” which accompany him, suitably irenic.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 22, 2018

He was, if you’ll pardon the expression, positively irenic.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2011

The tradition of the congresses used to be a militant witness against Protestantism, but the mood of last week's meeting was newly irenic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cranmer hoped to make his statement irenic; and in fact it contained some Roman and Calvinistic elements, but in the main it was Lutheran.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved