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RECONCILIATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Getting two things to correspond
Example:
the reconciliation of his checkbook and the bank statement
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("reconciliation" is a kind of...):
equalisation; equalization; leveling (the act of making equal or uniform)
Derivation:
reconcile (bring into consonance or accord)
reconcile (make (one thing) compatible with (another))
Sense 2
Meaning:
The reestablishing of cordial relations
Synonyms:
rapprochement; reconciliation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("reconciliation" is a kind of...):
cooperation (joint operation or action)
Derivation:
reconcile (come to terms)
Context examples:
I hope he may long continue to feel all the value of such a reconciliation.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
And if they really DO interest themselves, said Marianne, in her new character of candour, in bringing about a reconciliation, I shall think that even John and Fanny are not entirely without merit.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
We must remember, in the first place, that there is some story of a family quarrel, followed by a reconciliation.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All that sounded extravagant or irrational in the progress of the reconciliation might have no origin but in the language of the relators.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Having now a good house and a very sufficient income, he intended to marry; and in seeking a reconciliation with the Longbourn family he had a wife in view, as he meant to choose one of the daughters, if he found them as handsome and amiable as they were represented by common report.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
He experienced no suffering from estrangement—no yearning after reconciliation; and though, more than once, my fast falling tears blistered the page over which we both bent, they produced no more effect on him than if his heart had been really a matter of stone or metal.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A large and still increasing family, an husband disabled for active service, but not the less equal to company and good liquor, and a very small income to supply their wants, made her eager to regain the friends she had so carelessly sacrificed; and she addressed Lady Bertram in a letter which spoke so much contrition and despondence, such a superfluity of children, and such a want of almost everything else, as could not but dispose them all to a reconciliation.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The boy had, with the additional softening claim of a lingering illness of his mother's, been the means of a sort of reconciliation; and Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, having no children of their own, nor any other young creature of equal kindred to care for, offered to take the whole charge of the little Frank soon after her decease.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It was now some years since Anne had begun to learn that she and her excellent friend could sometimes think differently; and it did not surprise her, therefore, that Lady Russell should see nothing suspicious or inconsistent, nothing to require more motives than appeared, in Mr Elliot's great desire of a reconciliation.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, which could never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
