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This is the old, old problem that has taxed the brains of many a philosopher and the faith of many a theologian—the reconcilement of the existence of evil with an omnipotent God.

From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald

The wooing with music, which captures the Irish maiden’s heart, the flight, pursuit, marriage and reconcilement, are told with animation.

From The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde by Duffy, Charles Gavan

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 Wilson, John Lyde

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

This, however, would be difficult of reconcilement with Keeler's identification of an absorption-group in the yellow with a telluric waterband.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)