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Reconciliation : (noun)
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]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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 suchReconciliation : destroys the effect of a deed of
separation. 4 Eccl. R. 238.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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