reconciliations

Noun

reconciliation (countable and uncountable, plural reconciliations)

1. The re-establishment of friendly relations; conciliation, rapprochement.
   • He longed for reconciliation with his estranged father, but painful memories made him feel unready to do so.

   Synonyms:

   reconcilement, reconciling, saught

   Antonyms:

   irreconciliation, unreconciliation

2. The process of comparing and resolving apparent differences between sets of accounting records, or between accounting records and bank statements, receipts, etc.
3. The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of atonement.
4. The reconsecration of a desecrated church or other holy site.
5. Admission of a person to membership of the church, or readmission after the person has previously left the church.
6. (US) A special parliamentary procedure of the United States Congress to expedite the passage of certain federal budget legislation in the Senate, overriding the Senate's filibuster rules.

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