Other forms: reconciliations
Reconciliation is coming back together after a quarrel. Seek reconciliation, a reconciliation between them, truth and reconciliation.
Between people it means repairing a relationship rather than merely stopping the argument. Between communities it is a formal political process, and truth and reconciliation commissions have been used in South Africa, Canada and elsewhere to deal with the past without prosecution. In accounting, reconciliation means making two sets of figures agree. Note reconcile; and reconciled to, meaning resigned to.
1nounreconciliationComing back together after a quarrel.
“After ten years of silence, the sisters' reconciliation was a joyful moment.”
2nounmakingMaking two sets of figures agree.
“The accountant did a reconciliation of the bank statement and the sales records.”
reconciliation is a coming together again.
Latin reconciliatio comes from reconciliare, to bring together again — re- plus conciliare, to unite. Council and conciliate come from the same bringing together.
Proto-Indo-European
*kelh₁-
Middle French
reconciliation
Anglo-Norman
reconciliaciun
Middle English
reconciliacioun — act of reconciling; state of accord or harmony;
English, today
reconciliation
Built from
From Middle English reconciliacioun (“act of reconciling; state of accord or harmony;”)reconcyliacyoun, reconsiliation, reconsiliacion, reconsiliacioun, reconsyliacion, reconsylyacion, 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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