Reconcile vs Condone - What's the difference?
reconcile | condone |
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.
To forgive, excuse or overlook (something).
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=18 To allow, accept or permit (something).
(legal) To forgive (marital infidelity or other marital offense).
As verbs the difference between reconcile and condone
is that reconcile is to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony while condone is to forgive, excuse or overlook (something).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.
Derived terms
* reconciliationcondone
English
Verb
(condon)citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
