reconciliation

reconciliation
    n 1: the reestablishing of cordial relations [syn:
         {reconciliation}, {rapprochement}]
    2: getting two things to correspond; "the reconciliation of his
       checkbook and the bank statement" [syn: {reconciliation},
       {balancing}]
    

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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RECONCILIATION, n.  A suspension of hostilities.  An armed truce for
the purpose of digging up the dead.
    

RECONCILIATION, contracts. The act of bringing persons to agree together, 
who before, had had some difference. 
     2. A renewal of cohabitation between husband and wife is proof of 
reconciliation, and such reconciliation destroys the effect of a deed of 
separation. 4 Eccl. R. 238. 
    

74 Moby Thesaurus words for "reconciliation":
      acceptance, accommodation, accord, accordance, acquiescence,
      adaptation, adaption, adjustment, agreement, amity, appeasement,
      arbitration, assimilation, attunement, coaptation, comfort,
      compatibility, compliance, composure, compromise, conciliation,
      concord, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity,
      congruity, consistency, content, contentedness, contentment,
      conventionality, coordination, correspondence, detente, ease,
      entire satisfaction, euphoria, flexibility, fulfillment, happiness,
      harmonization, harmonizing, harmony, integration, keeping, line,
      making up, malleability, mollification, obedience, observance,
      orthodoxy, pacification, peace of mind, placation, pliancy,
      propitiation, rapport, rapprochement, reconcilement, regulation,
      resignation, reunion, satisfaction, satisfying, settlement,
      squaring, strictness, synchronization, timing, traditionalism,
      understanding, uniformity, well-being