reconciliation

Meanings

Plural: reconciliations

Noun

• the reestablishing of cordial relations
• getting two things to correspond
  • "the reconciliation of his checkbook and the bank statement"
• The re-establishment of friendly relations; conciliation, rapprochement.
• The process of comparing and resolving apparent differences between sets of accounting records, or between accounting records and bank statements, receipts, etc.
• Religious senses.
• The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of atonement.
• Religious senses.
• The reconsecration of a desecrated church or other holy site.
• Religious senses.
• Admission of a person to membership of the church, or readmission after the person has previously left the church.
• Religious senses.
• Ellipsis of sacrament of reconciliation (“a sacrament (sacred ritual) also called confession, involving contrition by a person, confessing sins to a priest, penance performed by the person, and absolution granted by the priest”).
• The process of systemically atoning for the crimes and broken promises that a nation has historically committed against indigenous people.

Synonyms

balancing, rapprochement, reconcilement, reconciling, saught

Antonyms

irreconciliation, unreconciliation

Related Words

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