Definition of "reconciliatory" [rec•on•cil•i•a•to•ry]

• That reconciles (adjective)

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• "Although the location of the fictive city between recalls the reconciliatory tone from the tempietti below, the imagery of the east wall alludes even more directly to one of several themes that enlace the studiolo."
• "What is more, Oothoon's metaphor of visual or visionary copulation mitigates against the dualism of an Enlightenment philosophy that represents mentality rather than biology as "characteristic of the human and ... what is 'fully and authentically' human" (Plumwood 169); for, by conceptualizing aesthetic apprehension in terms of sexual communion, her metaphor strives imaginatively to bring human biological and mental aspects into a kind of reconciliatory unison."
• "Observers described Sarkozy's speech as "reconciliatory", but Clinton's promises received less enthusiasm, with some NGOs describing it as weak, and with too many strings attached."