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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reconciliation \Rec'on*cil'i*a"tion\ (-s?l'?*?"sh?n), noun [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) 2.0 [wn]:
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}]
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 THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
RECONCILIATION, noun A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.
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