Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of reconciling, in any sense; reconciliation; renewal of interrupted friendship.
- noun Adjustment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Reconciliation.
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- noun The fact of being restored to cordial
relations with each other; settling differences, makingpeace ;reconciliation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She is the beautiful example of an injured wife doing honour to her sex in the punishment of a faithless husband, yet so little cherishing her natural right to deal him retribution, that we dare hope she will listen to her patriotic duty in consenting to the reconcilement, which is
The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868
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She is the beautiful example of an injured wife doing honour to her sex in the punishment of a faithless husband, yet so little cherishing her natural right to deal him retribution, that we dare hope she will listen to her patriotic duty in consenting to the reconcilement, which is Lord Fleetwood's alternative: his wife or Rome!
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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She is the beautiful example of an injured wife doing honour to her sex in the punishment of a faithless husband, yet so little cherishing her natural right to deal him retribution, that we dare hope she will listen to her patriotic duty in consenting to the reconcilement, which is Lord Fleetwood's alternative: his wife or Rome!
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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This atonement, or reconcilement of man with God, consists in an endless progress towards a reconcilement which is never absolutely completed in this life, and yet, by the continual increase of good and diminution of evil, is a sufficient groundwork of hope and peace.
The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans: Essays and Dissertations 1817-1893 1894
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a reconcilement which is never absolutely completed in this life, and yet, by the continual increase of good and diminution of evil, is a sufficient groundwork of hope and peace.
Theological Essays of the Late Benjamin Jowett: Seleted, Arranged, and Edited by Lewis Campbell 1817-1893 1906
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In his inner Hell, Satan can rationally discern the benefit of belief even as he can no longer experience it: "never can true reconcilement grow / Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc'd so deep."
Feisal G. Mohamed: Evaluating the Post-Secular Return to Belief Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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In his inner Hell, Satan can rationally discern the benefit of belief even as he can no longer experience it: "never can true reconcilement grow / Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc'd so deep."
Feisal G. Mohamed: Evaluating the Post-Secular Return to Belief Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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He ought not, mother, to have attempted reconcilement by armed force, for words compass everything that even the sword of an enemy might effect.
The Phoenissae 2008
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He ought not, mother, to have attempted reconcilement by armed force, for words compass everything that even the sword of an enemy might effect.
The Phoenissae 2008
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But without some investment in these characters, who are sparring and bickering and seem ill-matched from the very beginning, the romance never becomes the least bit believable, and their reconcilement is hardly credible, let alone rooted for.
Archive 2008-01-01 Ed Howard 2008
bilby commented on the word reconcilement
He loves her still:
His grief betrays it. Good! the joy to find
She’s yet alive, completes the reconcilement.
I’ve saved myself, and her.
- John Dryden, 'All for Love'.
September 20, 2009