reconcile

[ rek-uhn-sahyl ]

/ ˈrɛk ənˌsaɪl /

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verb (used with object), rec·on·ciled, rec·on·cil·ing.

to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.

to win over to friendliness; cause to become amicable: to reconcile hostile persons.

to compose or settle (a quarrel, dispute, etc.).

to bring into agreement or harmony; make compatible or consistent: to reconcile differing statements; to reconcile accounts.

to reconsecrate (a desecrated church, cemetery, etc.).

to restore (an excommunicate or penitent) to communion in a church.

verb (used without object), rec·on·ciled, rec·on·cil·ing.

to become reconciled.

OTHER WORDS FOR reconcile

2 pacify, propitiate, placate.

4 harmonize.

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3 anger.

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Origin of reconcile

1300–50; Middle English reconcilen<Latin reconciliāre to make good again, repair. See re-, conciliate

OTHER WORDS FROM reconcile

rec·on·cile·ment, nounrec·on·cil·er, nounrec·on·cil·ing·ly, adverbpre·rec·on·cile, verb (used with object), pre·rec·on·ciled, pre·rec·on·cil·ing.

pre·rec·on·cile·ment, nounqua·si-rec·on·ciled, adjectiveun·rec·on·ciled, adjectiveun·rec·on·cil·ing, adjective

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How to use reconcile in a sentence

Carmona has also worked with a psychologist to further the process of self-acceptance and to reconcile with his family that was ultimately successful.
Casa Frida becomes second home for Mexico City’s LGBTQ community|Yariel Valdés González|January 22, 2021|Washington Blade
Total said it was acting in line with the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change and that it could not reconcile differences with API over carbon pricing, subsidies for electric vehicles and the regulation of methane emissions.
French oil giant Total quits American Petroleum Institute|Steven Mufson|January 15, 2021|Washington Post
They can be valid each in their own terms, but they may sometimes be very difficult or even impossible to reconcile.
A Prodigy Who Cracked Open the Cosmos|Claudia Dreifus|January 12, 2021|Quanta Magazine
As a result, they had to spend time and resources reconciling, validating and recalculating royalties to verify accuracy.
An inside look at how trust accelerates transformation|Martha Leibs|December 15, 2020|MIT Technology Review

Investigators said they could not reconcile inconsistencies in the testimony of Wilkie, Powers, Cashour and Hutton because they refused to sit for a follow-up interview based on additional evidence.
VA Secretary Focused on Smearing Woman Who Said She Was Sexually Assaulted in a VA Hospital, Probe Finds|by Isaac Arnsdorf|December 10, 2020|ProPublica
Therefore there can be no question either of reconcilement or of opposition between the attributes of each.
Parallel Paths|Thomas William Rolleston
One's reconcilement with Christmas is due neither to one's stomach nor to a taste for the wit and wisdom of cracker manufacturers.
The Book of This and That|Robert Lynd
Reconcilement with God is the foundation, manifestly and of course, of all peace; and this we have as Christs direct gift to us.
The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II|Marcus Dods
For, as Milton wisely expresses, 'Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.'
Junius Unmasked|Joel Moody
Old Muzzy visited me pretty often, and once Rupert himself came down and made offers towards a reconcilement.
Athelstane Ford|Allen Upward

British Dictionary definitions for reconcile

reconcile

/ (ˈrɛkənˌsaɪl) /

verb (tr)

(often passive usually foll by to) to make (oneself or another) no longer opposed; cause to acquiesce in something unpleasantshe reconciled herself to poverty

to become friendly with (someone) after estrangement or to re-establish friendly relations between (two or more people)

to settle (a quarrel or difference)

to make (two apparently conflicting things) compatible or consistent with each other

to reconsecrate (a desecrated church, etc)

Derived forms of reconcile

reconcilement, nounreconciler, nounreconciliation (ˌrɛkənˌsɪlɪˈeɪʃən), nounreconciliatory (ˌrɛkənˈsɪlɪətərɪ, -trɪ), adjective

Word Origin for reconcile

C14: from Latin reconciliāre to bring together again, from re- + conciliāre to make friendly, conciliate

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