- the act of coming to an understanding and putting an end to hostility, as when former enemies agree to an amicable truce: Thirty years later, the rebel son is seeking reconciliation with his mother and sister.Reconciliation between the government and the Indigenous community will take more than pleasant words.
- the state of being resigned to something undesirable, or the process of achieving this state; acceptance: Telling them about her son as he was before the accident gave her a sense of peace and reconciliation with her loss.
- the act or process of making consistent or compatible: There is a tension between justice and mercy, and their reconciliation is not easy or obvious.
- the act or process of verifying one account or set of figures with another to ensure or test for accuracy: Reconciliation of the sum of money received and the number of tickets sold revealed a few reporting errors.
- a Congressional procedure under which a simple majority of votes in the Senate is enough to pass legislation relating to the federal budget: used in order to avoid a potential filibuster.
- a sacrament in which repentant sinners are absolved and gain reconciliation with God and the Church, on condition of confession of their sins to a priest and of performing a penance
