English Explanatory Dictionary

reconciliation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The re-establishment of friendly relations; conciliation, rapprochement.
  2. The process of comparing and resolving apparent differences between sets of accounting records, or between accounting records and bank statements, receipts, etc.
  3. Religious senses.
  4. The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of atonement.
  5. The reconsecration of a desecrated church or other holy site.
  6. Admission of a person to membership of the church, or readmission after the person has previously left the church.
  7. Ellipsis of sacrament of reconciliation (“a sacrament (sacred ritual) also called confession, involving contrition by a person, confessing sins to a priest, penance performed by the person, and absolution granted by the priest”).
  8. A special parliamentary procedure of the United States Congress to expedite the passage of certain federal budget legislation in the Senate, overriding the Senate's filibuster rules.
  9. The process of systemically atoning for the crimes and broken promises that a nation has historically committed against indigenous people.

Pronunciation

/ˌɹɛk(ə)nsɪlɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-reconciliation.wav /ˌɹɛkənˌsɪliˈeɪʃ(ə)n/ en-us-reconciliation.wav

Word forms

reconciliation reconciliations

Etymology

From Middle English reconciliacioun (“act of reconciling; state of accord or harmony;”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman reconciliaciun, reconsiliacion, reconsiliaciun, and Middle French reconciliation, reconsiliacion, reconsiliation (“act of reconciling; result of this act; act of bringing about agreement or harmony; reconsecration of a desecrated place”) (modern French réconciliation), and from their Latin etymon reconciliātiō (“reinstatement, renewal, restoration; reconciliation”), from reconciliāre + -tiō.

Synonyms

reconcilement reconciling saught

Antonyms

irreconciliation unreconciliation

Related words

conciliant conciliate conciliating conciliation conciliative conciliator conciliatorily conciliatoriness conciliatory conciliatrix reconcilability reconcilable reconcilableness reconcile reconciled reconcilement reconciler reconciliate reconciliative reconciliator reconciliatory reconciling reconcilist irreconcilability irreconcilable irreconcilableness irreconcilably irreconciliation nonreconcilable unreconcilable unreconcilableness unreconcilably unreconcile unreconciled unreconciliation unreconciling

Derived words

nonreconciliation reconciliation loop truth and reconciliation

Translations

Catalan: reconciliació Czech: svátost smíření Czech: zpověď Finnish: rippi German: Rekonziliation Polish: rekoncyliacja Portuguese: reconciliação Serbo-Croatian: реконцилија́ција Serbo-Croatian: rekoncilijacija Serbo-Croatian: sakrament pomirenja
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