Adjacent Words

Reconciliation definitions

	Tweet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RECONCILIA'TION, n. [L. reconciliatio.]
1. The act of reconciling parties at variance; renewal of friendship after disagreement or enmity.
Reconciliation and friendship with God, really form the basis of all rational and true enjoyment.
2. In Scripture, the means by which sinners are reconciled and brought into a state of favor with God, after natural estrangement or enmity; the atonement; expiation.
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity. Daniel 9. Hebrews 2.
3. Agreement of things seemingly opposite, different or inconsistent.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the reestablishing of cordial relations [syn: reconciliation, rapprochement]
2: getting two things to correspond; "the reconciliation of his checkbook and the bank statement" [syn: reconciliation, balancing]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English reconsiliacioun, from Anglo-French, from Latin reconciliation-, reconciliatio, from reconciliare Date: 14th century 1. the action of reconciling ; the state of being reconciled 2. the Roman Catholic sacrament of penance • reconciliatory adjective

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Reconciliation and friendship with God really form the basis of all rational and true enjoyment. --S. Miller. 2. Reduction to congruence or consistency; removal of inconsistency; harmony. A clear and easy reconciliation of those seeming inconsistencies of Scripture. --D. Rogers. Syn: Reconcilement; reunion; pacification; appeasement; propitiation; atonement; expiation.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(reconciliations) 1. Reconciliation between two people or countries who have quarrelled is the process of their becoming friends again. A reconciliation is an instance of this. ...an appeal for reconciliation between Catholics and Protestants... N-VAR: oft N between/with/of n 2. The reconciliation of two beliefs, facts, or demands that seem to be opposed is the process of finding a way in which they can both be true or both be successful. ...the ideal of democracy based upon a reconciliation of the values of equality and liberty. N-SING: N between/of/with n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Pacification, accommodation, reconcilement, reunion, adjustment, restoration of harmony. 2. Agreement, congruity, consonance, harmony, concordance, consistency, congruency, correspondence. 3. Appeasement, propitiation, atonement, expiation.

Moby Thesaurus

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