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Reconcilable

Reconcilable \Rec"on*ci`la*ble\ (r?k"?n*s?`l?*b'l), a. [Cf. F. r['e]conciliable.] Capable of being reconciled; as, reconcilable adversaries; an act reconciable with previous acts.

The different accounts of the numbers of ships are reconcilable.
--Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] -- Rec"on*ci`la*ble*ness, n. -- Rec"on*ci`la*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reconcilable

1610s, from reconcile + -able.

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reconcilable

a. Capable of being reconciled. n. Something that can be reconciled.

WordNet
reconcilable

adj. capable of being reconciled; "her way of thinking is reconcilable with mine" [ant: irreconcilable]

Usage examples of "reconcilable".

You would have shamed despotism from the earth by showing that freedom was not only reconcilable, but, as when well disciplined it is, auxiliary to law.

If the example of that nation is to have an influence on this, I can easily conceive why some of their proceedings which have an unpleasant aspect and are not quite reconcilable to humanity, generosity, good faith, and justice are palliated with so much milky good-nature toward the actors, and borne with so much heroic fortitude toward the sufferers.

In them we often see the end best obtained where the means seem not perfectly reconcilable to what we may fancy was the original scheme.