Reconciliation \Rec`on*cil`i*a"tion\ (-s?l`?*?"sh?n), n. [F.
r['e]conciliation, L. reconciliatio.]
1. The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled;
reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of
friendship.
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Reconciliation and friendship with God really form
the basis of all rational and true enjoyment. --S.
Miller.
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2. Reduction to congruence or consistency; removal of
inconsistency; harmony.
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A clear and easy reconciliation of those seeming
inconsistencies of Scripture. --D. Rogers.
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Syn: Reconcilement; reunion; pacification; appeasement;
propitiation; atonement; expiation.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
reconciliation
n 1: the reestablishing of cordial relations [syn: rapprochement]
2: getting two things to correspond; "the reconciliation of his
checkbook and the bank statement" [syn: balancing]
WordNet (r) 2.0
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "reconciliation":
acceptance, accommodation, accord, accordance, acquiescence,
adaptation, adaption, adjustment, agreement, amity, appeasement,
arbitration, assimilation, attunement, coaptation, comfort,
compatibility, compliance, composure, compromise, conciliation,
concord, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity,
congruity, consistency, content, contentedness, contentment,
conventionality, coordination, correspondence, detente, ease,
entire satisfaction, euphoria, flexibility, fulfillment, happiness,
harmonization, harmonizing, harmony, integration, keeping, line,
making up, malleability, mollification, obedience, observance,
orthodoxy, pacification, peace of mind, placation, pliancy,
propitiation, rapport, rapprochement, reconcilement, regulation,
resignation, reunion, satisfaction, satisfying, settlement,
squaring, strictness, synchronization, timing, traditionalism,
understanding, uniformity, well-being
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
RECONCILIATION, contracts. The act of bringing persons to agree together,
who before, had had some difference.
2. A renewal of cohabitation between husband and wife is proof of
reconciliation, and such reconciliation destroys the effect of a deed of
separation. 4 Eccl. R. 238.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for
the purpose of digging up the dead.
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
balancing, rapprochement
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