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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reconcile
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attempt
▪ Human elements balance geometry in an attempt to reconcile ancient human values with present day notions of modernity.
▪ In my opinion, any attempt to reconcile the statements of principle in Lawrence and Morris is a complete waste of time.
difference
▪ Management must reconcile differences in approach, effort, interest and timing of these separate individuals and groups.
▪ By looking to the Bible and seeking spiritual guidance, he is taking steps to reconcile our differences.
▪ Within our immediate group we can learn to reconcile personal and group differences to the point of rejecting personal values and beliefs.
▪ Only in the mid-199Os did efforts to reconcile differences and reduce the ongoing violence achieve some success.
▪ The two chambers would then attempt to reconcile the differences and agree upon a single bill.
▪ Mary is still at Mansfield when Edmund returns, and they are soon able to reconcile their differences.
▪ There representatives of the two chambers sit down to reconcile the differences between their versions.
difficulty
▪ For months they had had difficulty in reconciling the accounts until they realized the extent of shoplifting.
▪ Mansfield saw the difficulty in reconciling the two principles, but thought that certainty was the lesser of two evils.
fact
▪ However, for Coma at least, one must reconcile this with the fact that the X-ray emission seems to be rather smooth.
need
▪ Hours of work may be difficult to reconcile with the needs of the old person.
▪ He judges success by how effectively human needs are reconciled with the needs of the ecosystem.
▪ But this had to be reconciled with the need for good relations with the oil-rich Arab countries.
▪ How best to reconcile the need for faster performance and increased capacity?
problem
▪ Even President Wilson s negotiating team had problems in reconciling their leader s various directives.
task
▪ A considerable part of the manager's task is to reconcile and be reconciled with other people.
▪ If the parents have different cultural backgrounds, the tasks of reconciling the image to the reality is more complicated.
▪ Their initial task was to reconcile their expectations with the realities of daily life as a manager.
way
▪ Two essential freedoms - the right to communicate and the right to reputation - must in some way be reconciled by law.
▪ One thing, however, is certain: in whatever way the two were reconciled, it was not Prometheus who yielded.
▪ Friedman's statement of the natural rate hypothesis went a long way towards reconciling such evidence with basic classical theory.
▪ They wrestle with ways to reconcile pluralism with the absolute Truth of the Torah.
▪ Crucified among thieves, he chose the way which reconciled the forces of light and darkness.
▪ The extremists, the fanatics, those in opposite camps, need some way of being reconciled, some means of communication.
■ VERB
find
▪ He found it difficult to reconcile the opulence he had just witnessed with the poverty of some of the surrounding districts.
▪ Baldwin found it hard to reconcile the results with his reception during the election campaign.
▪ The problem is here, between two divided communities, trying to find a means of reconciling their divided allegiances.
seek
▪ Karl Llewellyn spent a great part of his life seeking to reconcile legal doctrine and commercial activity.
struggle
▪ The individual can be seen to be struggling to reconcile these two states.
▪ Conservatives struggling to reconcile this drive for security with the inherent and seemingly indispensable insecurity of the competitive society were profoundly alarmed.
▪ The Court of Appeal has struggled to reconcile the two decisions but has come in for criticism.
try
▪ Jazzbeaux walked, trying to reconcile what she knew with what she had seen, what she had felt.
▪ The government has set out on a path of trying to reconcile the Tutsi and Hutu peoples.
▪ The Comintern Congress was trying to reconcile its revolutionary past with the necessity of gaining support from constitutional parties.
▪ Auguste flashed around busily, trying to reconcile these people with Rose's cat burglar.
▪ Being shackled to one epoch meant it had to change and adapt but try to reconcile this with harsh realities.
▪ Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Senate and House members are trying to reconcile different versions of the transportation bill.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Demeter, however, refuses to reconcile Herself.
▪ He's quite reconciled to it all.
▪ How is the position to be reconciled?
▪ Many people have a hard time reconciling the wedding of their dreams with realistic costs.
▪ The most powerful culture is that which reconciles the goals of the individual with those of the collective.
▪ They dance the next dance together, reconciled again.
▪ Within our immediate group we can learn to reconcile personal and group differences to the point of rejecting personal values and beliefs.
▪ Yet this wave of social legislation could not easily be reconciled with the tenets of classical liberalism.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reconcile

Reconcile \Rec"on*cile`\ (-s?l`), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reconciled (-s?ld`); p. pr. & vb. n. Reconciling.] [F. r['e]concilier, L. reconciliare; pref. re- re- + conciliare to bring together, to unite. See Conciliate.]

  1. 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.

    Propitious now and reconciled by prayer.
    --Dryden.

    The church [if defiled] is interdicted till it be reconciled [i.e., restored to sanctity] by the bishop.
    --Chaucer.

    We pray you . . . be ye reconciled to God.
    --2 Cor. v. 20.

  2. To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.

  3. To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; -- followed by with or to.

    The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labor with affairs of state.
    --Locke.

    Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, Considered singly, or beheld too near; Which, but proportioned to their light or place, Due distance reconciles to form and grace.
    --Pope.

  4. To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.

    Syn: To reunite; conciliate; placate; propitiate; pacify; appease.

Reconcile

Reconcile \Rec"on*cile`\, v. i. To become reconciled. [Obs.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reconcile

mid-14c., of persons, from Old French reconcilier (12c.) and directly from Latin reconcilare "to bring together again; regain; win over again, conciliate," from re- "again" (see re-) + concilare "make friendly" (see conciliate). Reflexive sense is recorded from 1530s. Meaning "to make (discordant facts or statements) consistent" is from late 14c. Intransitive sense of "become reconciled" is from 1660s. Related: Reconciled; reconciling.

Wiktionary
reconcile

vb. 1 To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony. 2 To make things compatible or consistent. 3 To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

WordNet
reconcile

  1. v. make compatible with; "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories" [syn: accommodate, conciliate]

  2. bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one's goals with one's abilities" [syn: harmonize, harmonise]

  3. come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up" [syn: patch up, make up, conciliate, settle]

  4. accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate" [syn: resign, submit]

Wikipedia
Reconcile (rapper)

Ronald Stephen "Ronnie" Lillard, Jr., (born March 20, 1989), who goes by the stage name Reconcile, is an American hip hop recording artist. His first album Abandoned Hope was released in 2012, with Full Ride Music, which is a label started by rapper Thi'sl. The second album, Sacrifice, released in 2014, with Frontline Movement. Sacrifice was his Billboard chart debut album.

Usage examples of "reconcile".

He accounted his enemies those who envied him, and those who could not be reconciled to his glory and the influence of his name.

Platonists, and at the same time reconciled itself to the popular religion by means of allegorism, that is, it formed a new theology.

Marquis de Montespan, not to annul and revoke the judicial and legal separation which exists, but to inform him of your return to reasonable ideas, and of your resolve to be reconciled with the public.

As there was a necessity for reconciling this stubborn fact with the theory, his followers have made up the deficiency by resorting to the tangential force, or, as Clairant proposed, by continuing the approximations to terms of a higher order, or to the square of the disturbing force.

Menippea, where everything is permitted and nothing decided, dissolves the metaphysics of Dostoyevsky, whose creative thought is a struggle to reconcile four antinomic freedoms, two of which oppose the other two.

A killer behind bars, the Alvarez thing over, his past reconciled, a bankable profit for all, and Rosemary.

At the period of our history, the solicitors frequently sought the judge with the request that he would appoint an agent whom they proposed to him, --a man, as they said, to whom the affairs of the bankrupt were well-known, who would know how to reconcile the interests of the whole body of creditors with those of a man honorably overtaken by misfortune.

Jonas found it hard to reconcile the easy-going Cadmus with the Light Bringer warrior before him.

If you can answer that question in the affirmative, then do so explicitly, by demonstrating how their opinions in this case can be reconciled with their opinions in prior cases as well as with their extrajudicial writings.

Roridula, perhaps, shows us how we may reconcile these difficulties with respect to the homological nature of the tentacles.

Looking round, Macro observed the same forwardness in the other Celtic women and was trying to reconcile himself to the strange ways of this new culture when Boudica planted a boozy kiss on his lips.

During two days the king rejected his application: but sensible, either that this affair might be attended with dangerous consequences, or that in his impatience he had groundlessly accused the primate of malversation in his office, which seems really to have been the case, he at last permitted him to take his seat, and was reconciled to him.

The two mares quarreled, cajoled, discussed and reconciled, each seeking to convince the other to join her.

The delight of finding themselves once more together there, Denis, Ambroise, Gervais, Gregoire, the four big brothers, and Claire, the big sister, all reconciled and again invincible, increased when Charlotte arrived, bringing with her the other three daughters, Louise, Madeleine, and Marthe, who had married and settled in the district.

There was an openness about his manner, about even his features, which Merlin could not reconcile with the Old Heritage at all.