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Reconciliation \Rec`on*cil`i*a"tion\ (-s?l`?*?"sh?n), n. [F.
r['e]conciliation, L. reconciliatio.]
1. The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled;
reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of
friendship.
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Reconciliation and friendship with God really form
the basis of all rational and true enjoyment. --S.
Miller.
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2. Reduction to congruence or consistency; removal of
inconsistency; harmony.
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A clear and easy reconciliation of those seeming
inconsistencies of Scripture. --D. Rogers.
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Syn: Reconcilement; reunion; pacification; appeasement;
propitiation; atonement; expiation.
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