reconcilable
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- nonreconcilability noun
- nonreconcilable adjective
- nonreconcilableness noun
- nonreconcilably adverb
- reconcilability noun
- reconcilableness noun
- reconcilably adverb
- unreconcilable adjective
- unreconcilableness noun
- unreconcilably adverb
Etymology
Origin of reconcilable
Example Sentences
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But post pandemic and post energy crisis, the priorities of three years ago may not be fully reconcilable with the immediate tough decisions now required.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2022
Again, these characters are not people I analyze; they’re pieces of verbal artifice I invent, and whose almost limitless complications I try—again, using words—to make reconcilable.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 30, 2018
Exploitation and oppression didn't go away, but the system seemed not only powerful and dynamic, but reconcilable with democratic ideals.
From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2013
Catelyn, maybe more than anyone, shows us the tension between being the matriarch of a house and the mother of children, two roles that are inseparable, but not always reconcilable.
From Time • May 21, 2012
In October, 1880, Smith vindicated before that court his scientific attitude toward the Old Testament, maintaining that a moderate criticism of the biblical books was reconcilable with the maintenance of their inspired authority.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
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