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单词 conciliation
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conciliationn.

/kənˌsɪlɪˈeɪʃən/
Etymology: < Latin conciliātiōn-em, noun of action fromconciliāre to conciliate v. So French conciliation (in Cotgrave).
1.
a. The action of bringing into harmony; harmonizing, reconcilement.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] > action of bringing into agreement or harmony
conciliation1543
reconcilement1560
reconciliation1560
consorting1611
tuning1654
harmonization1837
attunement1866
1543 J. Bale Yet Course at Romyshe Foxe sig. G iiij v The concylyacion of the holye scrypturs and most auncyent fathers.
1558 Proclam. Q. Eliz. in J. Strype Ann. Reformation I. App. iii. 3 Until consultation may be had..for the better conciliation and accord of such causes as..are moved in matters and ceremonies of religion.
1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 210 The conciliation of human libertie with Divine preditermination of the wil.
1876 H. Spencer Princ. Sociol. (1877) I. 626 This conciliation of the interests of the species, the parents, and the young.
b. court (tribunal) of conciliation: a court for composing disputes by offering to the parties a voluntary settlement, the case proceeding to a judicial court if this is not accepted.
ΚΠ
1803 S. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 55/2 The Tribunal of Conciliation, established since 1795, is composed of the most intelligent and respectable men in the vicinage.
2. The gaining or winning by quiet means.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > by gentle or quiet means
conciliation1553
1553 Lady Jane Grey in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. Introd. 6 To..procede in the former Commission, for the Conciliation of some good Peace between our said good Brother and the French King.
a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 65 To the Conciliation of Rest and Sleep, it is required that there bee a Moderate Repletion.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 81. ⁋8 Beneficence needful to the conciliation of the divine favour.
3. Peaceable or friendly union. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun] > an alliance or association for common purpose > peaceable
conciliation1660
1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. v. 266 Considering the conciliation of men among themselves.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 896 Were there not a Natural Conciliation of all Rational Creatures..men could [not]..have made any firm Cities or Polities.
4.
a. Conversion from a state of hostility or distrust; the promotion of good will by kind and considerate measures; the exhibition of a spirit of amity, practice of conciliatory measures.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > [noun] > appeasing, pacifying, or propitiating
likingeOE
queemingeOE
mitigationa1382
pleasinga1382
propitiationa1425
appeasement1430
pacification1437
appeasingc1522
reconcilement1581
placation1589
reflection1607
modificationa1641
commodation1643
pacation1658
conciliation1775
making-up1816
mollification1886
1775 E. Burke Speech Resol. for Concil. Colonies 2 If, Sir, we incline to the side of conciliation, we are not at all embarrassed..by any incongruous mixture of coercion and restraint.
1792 J. Almon Anecd. Life W. Pitt (octavo ed.) III. xliii. 158 Let conciliation follow chastisement.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iv. 290 A policy of studied conciliation.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. lvi. 224 The effect of conciliation was..tried.
b. attributive.
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1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. III. 18 Government..defrays the whole expenses under the head of Conciliation Money.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Aug. 1/1 Last year, when the Tories were on the conciliation line.
c. Any of various means whereby disputes between employer and employees may be settled by agreement without proceeding to arbitration.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > [noun] > forms of conciliation or resolution
peace pledge1857
conciliation1876
1876 H. Crompton Industr. Conciliation iii. 33 The development of arbitration and conciliation in industry is characterised by the increasing prominence of conciliation.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 550/1 The term ‘conciliation’ is ordinarily used to cover a large number of methods of settlement, shading off in the one direction into ‘arbitration’ and in the other into ordinary direct negotiation between the parties.
1909 Hansard's Parl. Deb. 5th Ser. 2 1627 The conciliation scheme arranged in November, 1907, between representative railway companies and the railway workers.
1957 Encycl. Brit. XII. 300/2 Conciliation is usually compulsory in countries which have compulsory arbitration, notably in Germany, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, and in Venezuela.
5. Rhetoric.
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Conciliatio, a Figure in Rhetorick. See Synœceosis.]
1828 R. Whately Rhetoric in Encycl. Metrop. 267/1 In no point more than in..the Conciliation (to adopt the term of the Latin writers) of the hearers, is it requisite to consider who and what the hearers are.

Compounds

conciliation act n.
ΚΠ
1867 Act 30 & 31 Vict. c. 105 §18 In citing this Act for any Purpose whatever it shall be sufficient to use the Expression ‘The Councils of Conciliation Act, 1867’.]
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 552/2 The Conciliation Act passed in 1896.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 550/1 The conciliation boards established under the New Zealand Arbitration Act of 1894.
1965 Oxf. N.Z. Encycl. 108/2 Since 1894 the wages and conditions of employment of most workers in New Zealand..have been settled by agreements or awards made under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act.
conciliation board n.
ΚΠ
1876 H. Crompton Industr. Conciliation ii. 18 A conciliation board has standing committees..and is in fact a machinery for accommodating the conflicting interests of employers and employed.
1909 W. S. Churchill in Hansard Commons 23 Mar. 1628 A conciliation board has been established for the Great Northern and City Railway.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 8 Oct. 6/5 As the question is likely to be brought before a conciliation board in the near future, the Council will probably withhold action [etc.].
conciliation grade n. that particular grade in an industry which can attempt a settlement of disputes by conciliation.
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1928 Britain's Industr. Future (Liberal Industr. Inq.) iii. xvii. 216 The ‘conciliation grades’ on the railways.

Derivatives

conciliˈationist n. an advocate of a policy of conciliation.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > [noun] > appeasing, pacifying, or propitiating > advocate of
conciliationist1826
1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 228 Shall we fear to tell those Conciliationists that we can do very well without their good opinion?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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