irenical

English

Etymology

From irenic +‎ -al (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’).

Adjective

irenical (comparative more irenical, superlative most irenical)

1. Synonym of irenic (“promoting or fitted to promote peace, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful”)
   • 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin Books, published 2004, page 40:

     [Andrew Marvell's] irenical moral is the interdependence, if insurmountable quarrelsomeness, of both elements in man's divided nature, rather as in a stormy marriage.

Further reading

• “irenical”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.