Reconciliation

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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. 
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  RECONCILIATION, n.  A suspension of hostilities.  An armed truce for
  the purpose of digging up the dead.