Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Reconciliation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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