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/ˈpiːsmeɪkə(ɹ)/
Noun
A person who restores peace, especially by settling disputes; one who engages in peacemaking.
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Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shalbe called the chyldren of God.
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Loke therfore, O mercifull God, not vpon the sinnes which we continually commit: but vpon our mediatour & peacemaker Jesus Christ; that by his intercession thy wrath may be pacified, and we againe by thy fatherly countenance relieved and comforted.
These two things premis’d, I come now to draw the character of the persons here stiled peacemakers. It is observed, and very justly, by more Commentators than one, that peacemakers are the same, as men of a peaceable mind and disposition; for as he that is inclined to lying, is said to make a lie because he delights in making it; and he that is habitually inclin’d to sin, ποιειν αμαρτιαν, to do sin or make it (for the original word is the same) because he delights in the practice of wickedness; in like manner, he that is prevailingly disposed to follow peace, may be stiled a peacemaker; the word denotes the habit of the mind, which is the same, equally amiable in its self, and in the sight of God, whether the peaceable man has an opportunity to make peace among others or no.
Many times, in reflecting upon the subject, my feelings were to go and see the Indians personally. Although they were at war, and had been for some six or eight years and killed numbers of our people, breaking up whole districts, still I felt as though I would rather approach them as a peacemaker than as a fighter.
Mr. Carter has celebrated experience as a peacemaker: he mediated the 1978 peace talks between Israel and Egypt at Camp David.
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“That’s what I want to be: a peacemaker and a unifier,” he said. His time in office so far has not, at least not yet, been the era of peace.
Catachresis for pacemaker.
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Indeed, although the activity of the heart depends on the intrinsic rhythm of its peacemaker […]
The “heart’s peacemaker” is the node from which the electrical signal for heart beat are […]
Noun
someone who tries to bring peace