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Definition of Reconciling
1. Adjective. Tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony.
Definition of Reconciling
1. Verb. (present participle of reconcile) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reconciling
1. reconcile [v] - See also: reconcile
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reconciling
Literary usage of Reconciling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"The manifest importance and advantage of comparing the sacred writers with each
other, and of reconciling apparent contradictions, have induced many learned ..."
2. A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms by Charles Buck (1831)
"... or satisfying him for any injury that he might have done him. In like manner,
God's reconciling us to himself by the cross of Christ does not signify, ..."
3. A Series of Lecture Sermons: Delivered at the Second Universalist Meeting by Hosea Ballou (1854)
"GOD Reconciling THE WORLD UNTO HIMSELF, THROUGH CHRIST. II. CORINTHIANS, v.
18,19, 20. And all tilings are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by ..."
4. Theology as an Empirical Science by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1919)
"His work of reconciliation is God's work; "God was in Christ reconciling the world
... Moreover, such reconciling work is what is promoted in us through ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"In 1763 Calcraft deserted the cause of Fox for his more illustrious rival, throwing
himself with characteristic energy to the task of reconciling Pitt with ..."
6. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"THE Reconciling KISS. " WHY that sadness on thy brow ? Why that starting crystal
tear ? Dearest Fully, let me know, ..."
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