reconciliation

noun

rec·​on·​cil·​i·​a·​tion ˌre-kən-ˌsi-lē-ˈā-shən 

1

: the action of reconciling : the state of being reconciled

2

: the Roman Catholic sacrament of penance

3

US government : a legislative process that enables expedited passage of a bill relating to certain matters in the federal budget by a simple majority of votes

used reconciliation to repeal the bill passed during the prior session of Congress

Aides to senior House Republicans said Thursday that committee chairmen were meeting now to decide whether a budget plan … will include parliamentary language, known as reconciliation instructions, that would allow much of a Republican health care plan to pass the filibuster-prone Senate with a simple majority.

—Jonathan Weisman

reconciliatory

ˌre-kən-ˈsil-yə-ˌtȯr-ē 

-ˈsi-lē-ə-

adjective

Examples of reconciliation in a Sentence

Signing the trade agreement was praised as an act of reconciliation between the two countries.

He contacted us in hopes of a reconciliation.

a reconciliation of opposing views

Recent Examples on the Web

Yet as the summer progresses, raw wounds begin to scab over, as father and daughter begin to truly see each other once more — though the film, restrained to the last, holds off on any grandly cathartic embraces or gestures of reconciliation. —Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024

And do this with your husband, as too much of the work of reconciliation often falls to mom. —R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 15 Oct. 2024

Roman Reigns and Jimmy Uso continued solidifying their reconciliation since Bad Blood, but Solo Sikoa, Jacob Fatu, Tonga Loa, and Tama Tonga outnumbered them. —Brian Mazique, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024

More broadly, vesting disruptive nonstate actors with something to lose could turn their risk calculus away from violence and toward peace and reconciliation. —Mona Yacoubian, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2024

Word History

Etymology

Middle English reconsiliacioun, from Anglo-French, from Latin reconciliation-, reconciliatio, from reconciliare

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1