Definition of "irenics" [i•ren•ics]

• Irenical theology, opposed to polemics. (noun)

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• "J.J. Tayler's address of last month follows in the same path, -- all in favour of the "irenics," instead of polemics."
• "The attempts at reunion, pursued with perseverance during the seventeenth century, either among confessions drifting from the Reformation, or among all Christian churches, gathered together, mo - mentarily, deeply religious irenics and politically minded men, primarily concerned with civil peace."
• "The philosophy, to which Leibniz thus ascribed irenics as one of its chief aims, is a partial idealism."