Reconciling
['rekənsaɪlɪŋ] or ['rɛkənsaɪlɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reconcile
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Examples
- It was not the long, bleak sunny days of spring, nor yet was it that time was reconciling her to the town of her habitation. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- His heart is set on our marriage--there will be great difficulty, I fear, in reconciling him to the breaking-off of the engagement. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Would I forgive him for the selfish idea, and prove my pardon by a reconciling kiss? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He is very fond of Natural History and various scientific matters, and he is hampered in reconciling these tastes with his position. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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