reconcile
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- reconciliate (uncommon)
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin reconciliō.
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Verb[edit]
reconcile (third-person singular simple present reconciles, present participle reconciling, simple past and past participle reconciled)
- To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
- to reconcile people who have quarrelled
- To make things compatible or consistent.
- to reconcile differences
- 1709, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: Printed for W. Lewis […], published 1711, OCLC 15810849:
- Some Figures monstrous and mis-shap'd appear,
Consider'd singly, or beheld too near,
Which, but proportion'd to their Light, or Place,
Due Distance reconciles to Form and Grace
- 1693, [John Locke], “§2015”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], OCLC 1161614482:
- The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.
- To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
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Translations[edit]
to restore a friendly relationship
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to make things compatible or consistent
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