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Conciliation vs Reconcile - What's the difference?

conciliation | reconcile |

As a noun conciliation

is the action of bringing peace and harmony; the action of ending strife.

As a verb reconcile is

to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.

conciliation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of bringing peace and harmony; the action of ending strife.
    • (wikipedia conciliation)
  • (legal) A form of alternative dispute resolution, similar but less formal than mediation, in which the parties bring their dispute to a neutral third party, who helps lower tensions, improve communications and explore possible solutions.

    • See also

    * reconciliation

    reconcile

    English

    (reconciliation)

    Verb

    (reconcil)
  • To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
    • to reconcile people who have quarrelled
  • To make things compatible or consistent.
    • to reconcile differences
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, / Considered singly, or beheld too near; / Which, but proportioned to their light or place, / Due distance reconciles to form and grace.
  • * John Locke
    • The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.
  • To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

    • Derived terms

    * reconciliation