RECONCILING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reconciling mean? 

• RECONCILING (adjective)
  The adjective RECONCILING has 1 sense:

1. tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony

  Familiarity information: RECONCILING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECONCILING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony

Synonyms:

accommodative; reconciling

Similar:

adaptative; adaptive (having a capacity for adaptation)

 Context examples 

Would I forgive him for the selfish idea, and prove my pardon by a reconciling kiss?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

After wandering along the lane for two hours, giving way to every variety of thought—re-considering events, determining probabilities, and reconciling herself, as well as she could, to a change so sudden and so important, fatigue, and a recollection of her long absence, made her at length return home; and she entered the house with the wish of appearing cheerful as usual, and the resolution of repressing such reflections as must make her unfit for conversation.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

These were the circumstances and the hopes which gradually brought their alleviation to Sir Thomas, deadening his sense of what was lost, and in part reconciling him to himself; though the anguish arising from the conviction of his own errors in the education of his daughters was never to be entirely done away.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)