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Reconcile vs Forgive - What's the difference?

reconcile | forgive |

As verbs the difference between reconcile and forgive

is that reconcile is to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony while forgive is to pardon, to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment.

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

    forgive

    English

    Verb

  • To pardon, to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment.
    • Only the brave know how to forgive'''...A coward never '''forgave ; it is not in his nature. -
  • To accord forgiveness.

    • Derived terms

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    References

    * * 1000 English basic words English irregular verbs