Definition of "conciliating" [conciliating]

• Present participle of conciliate. (verb)

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• "Earl Grey observes that Mr. Pine has succeeded in conciliating many of the Dutch inhabitants of Natal."
• "They stand, I do not doubt, for a much more superstitious and barbarous view of the relation of God to men; the people who built them had, I imagine, the idea of conciliating God by the gift of a seemly sanctuary, a hope of improving not only their spiritual prospects in the after-life, but of possibly advancing their material prosperity in this, by thus displaying their piety and zeal in God's service."
• "Still the Administration seemed inclined to temporize, so thoroughly was it possessed by the notion of conciliating the Border States."