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Reconciling   /rˈɛkənsˌaɪlɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Reconcile  v. t.  (past & past part. reconciled; pres. part. reconciling)  
1.
To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled. "Propitious now and reconciled by prayer." "The church (if defiled) is interdicted till it be reconciled (i.e., restored to sanctity) by the bishop." "We pray you... be ye reconciled to God."
2.
To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.
3.
To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; followed by with or to. "The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labor with affairs of state." "Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, Considered singly, or beheld too near; Which, but proportioned to their light or place, Due distance reconciles to form and grace."
4.
To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.
Synonyms: To reunite; conciliate; placate; propitiate; pacify; appease.



Reconcile  v. i.  To become reconciled. (Obs.)






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"Reconciling" Quotes from Famous Books



... should study the monuments of the natural world under the influence of a similar infatuation, must draw a no less exaggerated picture of the energy and violence of causes, and must experience the same insurmountable difficulty in reconciling the former and present state of nature, If we could behold in one view all the volcanic cones thrown up in Iceland, Italy, Sicily, and other parts of Europe, during the last five thousand years, and could see the lavas which have flowed during ...
— The Harvard Classics Volume 38 - Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) • Various

... publicly married to her lover, and, should he survive the combat, allowed to depart with him in honour without even being asked to see her father expiate his iniquity? Surely, as a good Christian she should rejoice that he was given this opportunity of reconciling his soul with God and be made an example to others of his accursed faith. Was she ...
— Fair Margaret • H. Rider Haggard

... of reconciling Miracles with Credibility, is by a happy Invention of the Poet; as in particular, when he introduces Agents of a superior Nature, who are capable of effecting what is wonderful, and what is not to be met with in the ordinary course of things. ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele

... dealt at length with the question of the possibility of reconciling the independence of personality and the existence of an Absolute. From Eucken's point of view the difficulty is not so serious. When he speaks of personality he does not mean the mere subjective individual in all his ...
— Rudolph Eucken • Abel J. Jones

... seek supplies of grace Through the dear Redeemer's name, Show thy reconciling face; Take away our sin and shame; From our worldly cares set free; May we ...
— The Otterbein Hymnal - For Use in Public and Social Worship • Edmund S. Lorenz


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