reconcile
verb (used with object)
to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired.
reconciler
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a word derived from
reconcile.
Example Sentences
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They remember a socially conservative, respectable reconciler; not an anti-establishment revolutionary.
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2023
Tutu, who has struggled with ill health in recent years, is often hailed as South Africa’s moral conscience and the great reconciler of a nation divided by decades of racist politics.
From Reuters ● Oct. 7, 2021
“He was a racial reconciler without giving up what he believed,” Mr. Sharpton said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2020
We remember him as a monument, not a man, unblemished, frozen in time, and as America’s ultimate racial reconciler who now lives on the National Mall.
From Time ● Dec. 24, 2014
Education is, indeed, of all differences not divinely appointed, an instant effacer and reconciler.
From Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work by John Ruskin
