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Reconciling   /rˈɛkənsˌaɪlɪŋ/   Listen
Reconciling

adjective
1.
Tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony.  Synonym: accommodative.



Reconcile

verb
(past & past part. reconciled; pres. part. reconciling)
1.
Make (one thing) compatible with (another).  Synonyms: accommodate, conciliate.
2.
Bring into consonance or accord.  Synonyms: harmonise, harmonize.
3.
Come to terms.  Synonyms: conciliate, make up, patch up, settle.
4.
Accept as inevitable.  Synonyms: resign, submit.



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"Reconciling" Quotes from Famous Books



... it necessary, for reconciling any of your principal people to the delay, to assign the intended change in the Secretary's office as a reason, there can now be no objection to it, as we have agreed that it would be right that, by the time you can receive this letter, we should begin ...
— Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third, Volume 2 (of 2) - From the Original Family Documents • The Duke of Buckingham

... thousand forms have been given. The advantages of bee-keeping depend as much upon the construction of hives, as any one thing; yet there is no subject pertaining to them on which there is such a variety of opinions, and I have but little hopes of reconciling all these conflicting ...
— Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained • M. Quinby

... few dances she found herself whirling about the room with Roger, and she determined to carry out her plan of reconciling him and Mona. Mr. Lansing was not at the dance, for Elise had positively declined to invite him; and so, though Mona was there, she was rather cool to Elise, and favoured Roger only with a ...
— Patty's Social Season • Carolyn Wells

... policy of her husband with all the passion and excitement of her soul. He desired and feared at the same time an interview with this princess: one word from her would accomplish or destroy the bold enterprise he had dared to meditate, of reconciling the king with ...
— History of the Girondists, Volume I - Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution • Alphonse de Lamartine

... preceding, was on intimate terms with Hyacinthe Fouan. Her chief amusement was to throw Celine Macqueron and Flore Lengaigne against one another under the pretext of reconciling them. Though she was not devout, she made ardent intercessions to Heaven to reserve for her son a lucky number in the drawing for the conscription, but, after the event, turned her anger against the Deity because her prayers had not ...
— A Zola Dictionary • J. G. Patterson


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