reconcile
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English
Alternative forms
- reconciliate (uncommon)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin reconciliō.
Pronunciation
Verb
reconcile (third-person singular simple present reconciles, present participle reconciling, simple past and past participle reconciled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony.
- to reconcile people who have quarrelled
- to wait until others have reconciled
- (transitive) To make things compatible or consistent.
- to reconcile differences
- 1709, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: W. Lewis , published 1711, →OCLC:
- 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 and J Churchill, , →OCLC:
- The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.
- (transitive) To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
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Translations
to restore a friendly relationship (transitive)
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to make things compatible or consistent
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to make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance
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References
- ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9), volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 5.67, page 173.