Definition of Reconcile

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Reconcile

To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled.

To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.

To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; -- followed by with or to.

To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.

To become reconciled.

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Reconcile Quotations

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.
Louis Farrakhan

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.
Louis Farrakhan

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
Marie Curie

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
Charles Eames

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
Tadao Ando

The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.
H. P. Blavatsky

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
Ibrahim Babangida

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
Edvard Munch

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
Louis XIV

Reconcile Translations

reconcile in Italian is conciliare
reconcile in Latin is concilio
reconcile in Spanish is amistar, reconciliar

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