reconcile
verb (used with object)
to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired.
reconcilement
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a word derived from
reconcile.
Example Sentences
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It is diverting to remark how these mutual admirers clash on the clearest point, with not a possibility of reconcilement.
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
It may probably be best defined as the perfect reconcilement of the believer to the extinction of his individual consciousness.
From God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' by William Archer
Yet forgetting is not just the very word; call it rather a reconcilement to doom and destiny—in thus obeying a benign law of nature that soon streams sunshine over the shadows of the grave.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
But if you withdrew your love—if, after punishment inflicted, you still kept an averted countenance—if no reconcilement were sought and fostered, there would be no reformation in your chastisement.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
It is impossible to find any principle of reconcilement in accordance with which their proper place in the reasonable intelligence of the age may be assigned to each.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. Sellar
