Reconciliation vs Reconcile - What's the difference?
reconciliation | reconcile | Derived terms |
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.
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.
Reconcile is a derived term of reconciliation.
As a noun reconciliation
is the reestablishment of friendly relations; conciliation or rapprochement.As a verb reconcile is
to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.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.
Synonyms
*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.
