Associations to the word «Reconciliation»

Wiktionary

RECONCILIATION, noun. The reestablishment of friendly relations; conciliation or rapprochement.
RECONCILIATION, noun. (theology) The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of the process of atonement; more specifically,
RECONCILIATION, noun. (accounting) Process of matching and comparing figures from accounting records against those presented on a bank statement.

Dictionary definition

RECONCILIATION, noun. The reestablishing of cordial relations.
RECONCILIATION, noun. Getting two things to correspond; "the reconciliation of his checkbook and the bank statement".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats