Associations to the word «Irenic»

Wiktionary

IRENIC, adjective. (chiefly theology) Promoting or fitted to promote peace; conciliatory, non-confrontational; peaceful.

Dictionary definition

IRENIC, adjective. Conducive to peace; "irenic without being namby-pamby"; "an irenic attitude toward former antagonists".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope