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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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
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
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
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 Charles Gavan Duffy
St Paul’s view embraced, in fact, a world-wide reconcilement.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
