reconciliation
pronunciation
How to pronounce reconciliation in British English:
UK [ˌrekənsɪliˈeɪʃn]
How to pronounce reconciliation in American English:
US [ˌrekənsɪliˈeɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- the reestablishing of cordial relations
- getting two things to correspond
Word Origin
- reconciliation (n.)
- mid-14c., from Old French reconciliacion (14c.) and directly from Latin reconciliationem (nominative reconciliatio) "a re-establishing, a reconciling," noun of action from past participle stem of reconciliare (see reconcile).
Example
- 1. Not all these proposals will survive the reconciliation process .
- 2. Mr saleh and others declare that efforts at reconciliation are dead .
- 3. Its emergence from the gruesome era of apartheid is a miracle of reconciliation .
- 4. As an act of reconciliation , it truly would be a watershed in pakistan .
- 5. Hardly the stuff of religious reconciliation and responsible social reform .