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The reestablishing of cordial relations
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reconciliation
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The reestablishment of friendly relations; conciliation or rapprochement. 2 (context theology English) The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of the process of atonement; more specifically, 3 (context accounting English) Process ...
Wikipedia
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Reconciliation , in Christian theology , is an element of salvation that refers to the results of atonement . Reconciliation is the end of the estrangement, caused by original sin , between God and humanity . John Calvin describes reconciliation as the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE national ▪ In his acceptance speech to the Assembly on Oct. 20 Berri appealed for national reconciliation . ▪ The present government is involved in a process of national reconciliation and is attempting to address ...
WordNet
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n. the reestablishing of cordial relations [syn: rapprochement ] getting two things to correspond; "the reconciliation of his checkbook and the bank statement" [syn: balancing ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old French reconciliacion (14c.) and directly from Latin reconciliationem (nominative reconciliatio ) "a re-establishing, a reconciling," noun of action from past participle stem of reconciliare (see reconcile ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reconciliation \Rec`on*cil`i*a"tion\ (-s?l`?*?"sh?n), n. [F. r['e]conciliation, L. reconciliatio.] The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship. Reconciliation and friendship ...
Usage examples of reconciliation.
These gentlemen, acting in concert with the seconds, Whiteside and Merryman, soon effected a reconciliation deemed honorable to all, and the Shields-Lincoln duel passed to the domain of history.
Englishmen held to the view of Americans as uncouth obstreperous trouble-makers, regardless of the example in their midst, among others, of Benjamin Franklin, as variously talented and politically sophisticated as anyone in Europe, and thoroughly dedicated to the goal of reconciliation.
Returning man to his rightful place of personhood is the theme of redemption, or reconciliation, or enlightenment, central to all of the great world religions.
Cemetery Association the question came up of putting a fence between the parkland now known as the Cemetery of Reconciliation and the Engineering School and Polyclinic, but it was tabled as not urgent.
Government is to see a united Yugoslav Government, in which all Yugoslavs resisting the enemy are represented, and a reconciliation between the Serbian people and the National Liberation Movement.
I learned from General Sacken that the Emperor Alexander had wished that on that day the one Frenchman more should be surrounded only by Frenchmen, and that to prove that the presence of the Bourbons was the signal of reconciliation his Majesty had ordered 20,000 of the Allied troops to quit Paris.
The presents which accompanied this humble epistle, in which the monarch solicited a reconciliation with his discontented subject, consisted of a considerable sum of money, a splendid wardrobe, and a valuable service of silver and gold plate.
Whilst supping, that is, while eating the fish, washed down with bad ale, Monk got Athos to relate to him the last events of the Fronde, the reconciliation of M.
Humbled as he now is, I cannot forgive him such an instance of pride, and am doubtful whether I ought not to punish him by dismissing him at once after this reconciliation, or by marrying and teazing him for ever.
All this involved now the unavailing regret of Alma Leighton, and now his reconciliation with her they were married in Grace Church, because Beaton had once seen a marriage there, and had intended to paint a picture of it some time.
What does it matter that it is an abnormal tension, if the result, if the moment of sensation, remembered and analysed in a state of health, turns out to be harmony and beauty brought to their highest point of perfection, and gives a feeling, undivined and undreamt of till then, of completeness, proportion, reconciliation, and an ecstatic and prayerful fusion in the highest synthesis of life?
Faced with the prospect of war with France, Adams was determined to make a fresh effort at negotiations in Paris, to bring about a reconciliation, which he believed possible and desirable.
Rush wrote to Jefferson to assure him that posterity would acclaim the reconciliation and that Jefferson was certain to find Adams a refreshing correspondent.
Gdansk and busied himself at his headquarters in his Bochum apartment, providing the Cemetery of Reconciliation with a steady flow of material.
Cemetery of Reconciliation, the Bundestag in Bonn and the Volkskammer in East Berlin officially recognized the western boundary of Poland, as established by international law, was extremely favorable to our enterprise.