different between conciliatory vs dovish

English

conciliatory (comparative more conciliatory, superlative most conciliatory)

Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.
- 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, "Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
  Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.

From dove +? -ish.

dovish (comparative more dovish, superlative most dovish)

Pertaining to a dove; dove-like.
(figuratively) Peaceful, conciliatory.
Antonym: hawkish
- 2006 July 18, Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian, page 3:
  Doubtless an expression of frustration at the UN secretary general, who has long been too dovish for Bush administration tastes.
- 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 210:
  Caillaux bypassed his Foreign Office in order to impose his own dovish agenda on the negotiations with Berlin […].
Disfavoring increasing interest rates; inclined against increasing interest rates.
Antonym: hawkish

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