Rec`on*cil`i*a"tion (-s?l`?*?"sh?n), n. [F. r'econciliation, L. reconciliatio.]
1.
The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship.
Reconciliation and friendship with God really form the basis of all rational and true enjoyment.
S. Miller.
2.
Reduction to congruence or consistency; removal of inconsistency; harmony.
A clear and easy reconciliation of those seeming inconsistencies of Scripture.
D. Rogers.
Syn. -- Reconciliment; reunion; pacification; appeasement; propitiation; atonement; expiation.
© Webster 1913.