reconcile

pronunciation

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  • Verb:
    make compatible with
    bring into consonance or accord
    come to terms
    accept as inevitable

Word Origin

reconcile (v.)
mid-14c., of persons, from Old French reconcilier (12c.) and directly from Latin reconcilare "to bring together again; regain; win over again, conciliate," from re- "again" (see re-) + concilare "make friendly" (see conciliate). Reflexive sense is recorded from 1530s. Meaning "to make (discordant facts or statements) consistent" is from late 14c. Intransitive sense of "become reconciled" is from 1660s. Related: Reconciled; reconciling.

Example

1. How do you reconcile these different pictures of china ?
2. Such positions will be hard to reconcile ahead of next week 's summit .
3. Now the two sides must reconcile their ideas for the anti-corruption body .
4. And in an interview with the wall street journal , ryan crocker , the ambassador to afghanistan , said that " the taliban needs to feel more pain before you get to a real readiness to reconcile . "
5. And it must reconcile austerity with the need for reviving the eurozone .

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