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reconcile Verb [-ciling, -ciled] 1. to make (two apparently conflicting things) compatible or consistent with each other: in many cases science and religion are reconciled 2. to re-establish friendly relations with (a person or people) or between (people) 3. to accept or cause to accept (an unpleasant situation): we reconciled ourselves to a change [Latin reconciliare]
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reconcile verb 3. make peace between, reunite, propitiate, bring to terms, restore harmony between, re-establish friendly relations between reconcile yourself to something (often passive) accept, resign yourself to, get used to, put up with (informal) submit to, yield to, make the best of, accommodate yourself to Translationsto reconcile o.s. to sth → resignarse or conformarse a algo to reconcile o.s. to → se résigner à (facts, beliefs) → (miteinander) vereinbaren, in Einklang bringen; to reconcile o.s. to → rassegnarsi a |
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| When the battle was at its height, a Sprat lifted its head out of the waves and said that he would reconcile their differences if they would accept him as an umpire. Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which would never justify weariness, which would reconcile self-despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self. Some mothers would have insisted on their daughter's accepting so good an offer on the first overture; but I could not reconcile it to myself to force Frederica into a marriage from which her heart revolted, and instead of adopting so harsh a measure merely propose to make it her own choice, by rendering her thoroughly uncomfortable till she does accept him--but enough of this tiresome girl. |
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