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ˈmake-peace
[See make v.1 9 c.]
One who or something which makes peace; a peace-maker. Also attrib.
1516Fabyan Chron. (1811) II. 439 It was not longe after or the Scottis..callyd hir Iane make peace. 1552T. Barnabe in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. II. 202, I knowe a towne in Normandye..is now a second Rone, & yt is the verye gulfe, gulet and mouthe of the See, and a make-peace yf we hadde yt. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. i. 160. 1601 Daniel Civ. Wars vi. xliv. (1609) 154 When make-peace Hymen shall Bring the conioyned aduerse powers to bed. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden cccxx. 594 The civill uses whereunto the Birch tree serveth are many, as for the punishment of Children..for it hath an admirable influence upon them, to quiet them when they are out of Order, and therefore some call it Make-peace. 1836[G. E. Inman] Sir Orfeo 13 Sir Orfeo might have gone To seek his make-peace wife alone. 1855Miss Sewell Cleve Hall I. 388 Fanny, who was the make-peace of the family, found a place for him at the table. |