Rapprochement vs Reconcile - What's the difference?
rapprochement | reconcile |
The reestablishment of cordial relations, particularly between two countries; a reconciliation.
To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
To make things compatible or consistent.
* Alexander Pope
* John Locke
To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
As a noun rapprochement
is the reestablishment of cordial relations, particularly between two countries; a reconciliation.As a verb reconcile is
to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.rapprochement
English
(wikipedia rapprochement)Noun
(en noun)- It was the Nixon administration that saw the rapprochement between the United States and China.
reconcile
English
(reconciliation)Verb
(reconcil)- to reconcile people who have quarrelled
- to reconcile differences
- Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, / Considered singly, or beheld too near; / Which, but proportioned to their light or place, / Due distance reconciles to form and grace.
- The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.
