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What is the adjective for irenic?

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irenic
  1. (theology) Promoting or fitted to promote peace; conciliatory, non-confrontational; peaceful.
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    1. “Yet more surprising than such relevance is the irenic quality of this advice seeking a hospitable engagement with neighbors of other faiths.”
      “Always willing to engage in serious, even fierce, political debate, Jim Finn was as well an irenic man and a hospitable one.”
      “Written in a sympathetic and irenic spirit, this book echoes a striking number of the same criticisms of the current Roman exercise of primacy.”
irenical
  1. Peaceful, conciliatory; promoting peace, especially over theological or ecclesiastical disputes.
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    1. “Young has interesting treatments of irenical, ecumenical elements, and even humility in some later sonnets.”
      “It is a method of inquiry, irenical and ecumenical, uniting all who submit to its discipline in a search for truth, whose destination cannot be known in advance.”
      Irenical has become a commonly-used adjective to design an idealist and pacific conception, such as the democratic peace theory.”
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