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reconciliation
/ˌɹɛkənˌsɪliˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
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What does reconciliation mean?
noun
- The re-establishment of friendly relations; conciliation, rapprochement.
- The process of comparing and resolving apparent differences between sets of accounting records, or between accounting records and bank statements, receipts, etc.
- The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of atonement.
More meanings (5)
noun
- The reconsecration of a desecrated church or other holy site.
- Admission of a person to membership of the church, or readmission after the person has previously left the church.
- Ellipsis of sacrament of reconciliation (“a sacrament (sacred ritual) also called confession, involving contrition by a person, confessing sins to a priest, penance performed by the person, and absolution granted by the priest”).
- A special parliamentary procedure of the United States Congress to expedite the passage of certain federal budget legislation in the Senate, overriding the Senate's filibuster rules.
- The process of systemically atoning for the crimes and broken promises that a nation has historically committed against indigenous people.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɹɛkənˌsɪliˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
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Another reconciliation was patched up between him and the King-Maker, but it was a short one, and it was the last.
Since, however, the ideal of culture as complete development of personality persisted, educational philosophy attempted a reconciliation of the two ideas.
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To dream of seeing young people, is a prognostication of reconciliation of family disagreements and favorable times for planning new enterprises.
There was something very pleasingly human, he thought, in this primitive readiness to resort to fisticuffs, and this frank and genial reconciliation.
All that sounded extravagant or irrational in the progress of the reconciliation might have no origin but in the language of the relators.