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conciliate (verb):
1 : appease
2 : to gain (something, such as goodwill) by pleasing acts
3 : to make compatible : reconcile
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology :The immediate source of conciliate is a form of the Latin verb conciliare, meaning “to assemble, unite, win over,” and when conciliate was first used in the 16th century, the idea of winning over was key; it was used to mean “to gain something, such as goodwill or favor, by pleasing acts.” Today, conciliate is mostly used in contexts where appease or reconcile is a more common choice, as in “a refusal to conciliate the dictator,” and “efforts to conciliate the views of those on opposing sides.” Like the word council, conciliate ultimately traces back to the Latin word concilium, meaning “assembly, council.”
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