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Definition of Reconcile

1. Verb. Make (one thing) compatible with (another). "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories"

2. Verb. Bring into consonance or accord. "Harmonize one's goals with one's abilities"

3. Verb. Come to terms. "After some discussion we finally made up"

4. Verb. Accept as inevitable. "He resigned himself to his fate"

Definition of Reconcile

1. v. t. To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled.

2. v. i. To become reconciled.

Definition of Reconcile

1. Verb. To recreate friendly relationships. ¹

2. Verb. To make things compatible or consistent. ¹

3. Verb. To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reconcile

1. [v -CILED, -CILING, -CILES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reconcile

reconceptualisation reconceptualisations reconceptualise reconceptualised reconceptualises reconceptualising reconceptualization reconceptualizations reconceptualize reconceptualized

reconceptualizes reconceptualizing reconcilability reconcilable reconcilables reconcile reconciled reconcilement reconcilements reconciler

reconcilers reconciles reconciliation reconciliations reconciliatorily reconciliatory reconciling reconcilingly recondensation recondensations

Literary usage of Reconcile

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1844)
"... on the contrary, that one good work will reconcile a man to God, whose wrath he has incurred by a multitude of sins. CHAPTER XIX. ON CHRISTIAN LIBERTY. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"An attempt has been made to identify the Jutes with the Frisians and to thus reconcile the apparently conflicting statements of Bede, who states that the ..."

3. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1896)
"... in the scheme which she devised to reconcile these two divided souls, and at the same time to repay some part of her debt of gratitude to Antonina by ..."

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