RECONCILIATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reconciliation mean? 

• RECONCILIATION (noun)
  The noun RECONCILIATION has 2 senses:

1. the reestablishing of cordial relations

2. getting two things to correspond

  Familiarity information: RECONCILIATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECONCILIATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The reestablishing of cordial relations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

rapprochement; reconciliation

Hypernyms ("reconciliation" is a kind of...):

cooperation (joint operation or action)

Derivation:

reconcile (come to terms)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Getting two things to correspond

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

balancing; reconciliation

Context example:

the reconciliation of his checkbook and the bank statement

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))

 Context examples 

Till this morning, we have not once met since the day of reconciliation.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It determined him to attempt a reconciliation, though not exactly in the manner pointed out by their brother and sister.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

How bitter that quarrel may have been, or how hollow the reconciliation we cannot tell.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was very earnestly and humbly entreating Miss Murdstone's pardon, which that lady granted, and a perfect reconciliation took place.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr Elliot's having any views on me will not in the least account for the efforts he made towards a reconciliation with my father.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

If the relationship was a positive, healthy one, there is no harm in getting together for dinner to see how you both feel about reconciliation.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

No happy reconciliation was to be had with him—no cheering smile or generous word: but still the Christian was patient and placid; and when I asked him if he forgave me, he answered that he was not in the habit of cherishing the remembrance of vexation; that he had nothing to forgive, not having been offended.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Fanny, now at liberty to speak openly, felt more than justified in adding to his knowledge of her real character, by some hint of what share his brother's state of health might be supposed to have in her wish for a complete reconciliation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But at length, by Elizabeth's persuasion, he was prevailed on to overlook the offence, and seek a reconciliation; and, after a little further resistance on the part of his aunt, her resentment gave way, either to her affection for him, or her curiosity to see how his wife conducted herself; and she condescended to wait on them at Pemberley, in spite of that pollution which its woods had received, not merely from the presence of such a mistress, but the visits of her uncle and aunt from the city.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

That they were false, the general had learnt from the very person who had suggested them, from Thorpe himself, whom he had chanced to meet again in town, and who, under the influence of exactly opposite feelings, irritated by Catherine's refusal, and yet more by the failure of a very recent endeavour to accomplish a reconciliation between Morland and Isabella, convinced that they were separated forever, and spurning a friendship which could be no longer serviceable, hastened to contradict all that he had said before to the advantage of the Morlands—confessed himself to have been totally mistaken in his opinion of their circumstances and character, misled by the rhodomontade of his friend to believe his father a man of substance and credit, whereas the transactions of the two or three last weeks proved him to be neither; for after coming eagerly forward on the first overture of a marriage between the families, with the most liberal proposals, he had, on being brought to the point by the shrewdness of the relator, been constrained to acknowledge himself incapable of giving the young people even a decent support.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)