Compromise vs Reconciliation - What's the difference?
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The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
* Shakespeare
* Burke
* Hallam
A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
* Lamb
(ambitransitive) To bind by mutual agreement.
* Shakespeare
To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
* Fuller
To find a way between extremes.
To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.
* Motley
To cause impairment of.
To breach (a security system).
The reestablishment of friendly relations; conciliation or rapprochement.
(theology) The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of the process of atonement; more specifically,
:* A Roman Catholic sacrament involving contrition, confession, punishment and absolution; penance.
(accounting) Process of matching and comparing figures from accounting records against those presented on a bank statement.
As nouns the difference between compromise and reconciliation
is that compromise is the settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions while reconciliation is reconciliation (process of matching and comparing figures from accounting records against those presented on a bank statement).As a verb compromise
is (ambitransitive) to bind by mutual agreement.compromise
English
(wikipedia compromise)Noun
(en noun)- But basely yielded upon compromise / That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows.
- All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
- An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions.
- a compromise of character or right
- I was determined not to accept any fine speeches, to the compromise of that sex the belonging to which was, after all, my strongest claim and title to them.
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* *Verb
(compromis)- Laban and himself were compromised / That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied / Should fall as Jacob's hire.
- The controversy may easily be compromised .
- To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances.
- He tried to compromise the security in the computer by guessing the password.
Derived terms
* compromising (adjective )External links
* ----reconciliation
English
(wikipedia reconciliation)Noun
(en noun)- He longed for reconciliation with his estranged father, but too many painful memories kept him from making contact again.
