reconciliation

See also réconciliation

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin reconciliatio (“a re-establishing, reinstatement, restoration, renewal, a reconciling, reconciliation”), from reconciliare

Noun

reconciliation (plural reconciliations)

1. The reestablishment of friendly relations; conciliation or rapprochement.

   He longed for reconciliation with his estranged father, but too many painful memories kept him from making contact again.

2. (theology) The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of the process of atonement; more specifically,

   • A Roman Catholic sacrament involving contrition, confession, punishment and absolution; penance.

3. (accounting) Process of matching and comparing figures from accounting records against those presented on a bank statement.

Synonyms

• saught

Translations

the reestablishment of friendly relations; conciliation or rapprochement

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 和解 (cmn) (héjiě)

• Czech: usmíření (cs) n
• Danish: forsoning
• Finnish: sopiminen (fi), sovinnonteko (fi)
• French: réconciliation (fr) f
• German: Versöhnung (de) f, Aussöhnung (de) f
• Italian: ravvicinamento (it) m
• Japanese: 和解 (ja) (わかい, wakai)

• Korean: 화해 (ko) (hwahae) (和解 (ko))
• Manx: aachaarjaghey (gv) m, aachaarjys (gv) m, aachoardail (gv) m
• Polish: zgoda (pl) f, pojednanie (pl) n
• Romanian: reconciliere (ro) f, împăcare (ro) f
• Russian: примирение (ru) (primirénije) n, сближение (ru) (sbližénije) n
• Spanish: reconciliación (es) f
• Urdu: مفاہمت (ur) ((mufāhimat)) f
• Vietnamese: hoà giải (vi) (和解 (vi))

a Roman Catholic sacrament involving contrition, confession, punishment and absolution; penance

• Czech: svátost smíření (cs) f, zpověď (cs) f

• Polish: rekoncyliacja f

Process of matching and comparing figures from accounting records against those presented on a bank statement

• French: réconciliation (fr) f, rapprochement (fr) m
• German: Abgleich (de) m
• Italian: riconciliazione (it) f

• Norwegian: avstemming m
• Russian: согласование (ru) (soglasovánije) n, сверка (ru) (svérka) f