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Reconcile vs Reconsider - What's the difference?

reconcile | reconsider |

As verbs the difference between reconcile and reconsider

is that reconcile is to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony while reconsider is to consider a matter thought already to have been decided.

reconcile

English

(reconciliation)

Verb

(reconcil)
  • To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
    • to reconcile people who have quarrelled
  • To make things compatible or consistent.
    • to reconcile differences
  • * Alexander Pope
    • 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.
  • * John Locke
    • The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.
  • To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

    • Derived terms

    * reconciliation

    reconsider

    English

    Verb

    (en verb) (wikipedia reconsider)
  • To consider a matter thought already to have been decided.
    • Is there any way I can get you to reconsider selling your car?
  • In parliamentary procedure, a motion to bring back for further debate and a revote a motion that has already been passed.

    • Related terms

    * consider

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