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adj. - Conducive to peace.

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Usage examples (6)
  • We have a sort of eirenic vision of the world in Europe.
  • A visit last night to the Thackeray Gallery in Kensington had much of the same eirenic effect as San Michele's island.
  • Deal with this community in the aforesaid manner, for it cannot make good by itself, if your presence is far removed from it and if you are not in good health, strong, and...
  • And he could be no less firm about aspects of liturgy of which he disapproved: his theology was never angular or sectarian (remember his generous support of the liturgical...
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