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reconciliation

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Noun

  1. The re-establishment of friendly relations; conciliation, rapprochement.
  2. The process of comparing and resolving apparent differences between sets of accounting records, or between accounting records and bank statements, receipts, etc.
  3. Religious senses: The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of atonement.
  4. Religious senses: The reconsecration of a desecrated church or other holy site.
  5. Religious senses: Admission of a person to membership of the church, or readmission after the person has previously left the church.
  6. Religious senses: Ellipsis of sacrament of reconciliation (“a sacrament (sacred ritual) also called confession, involving contrition by a person, confessing sins to a priest, penance performed by the person, and absolution granted by the priest”).
  7. The process of systemically atoning for the crimes and broken promises that a nation has historically committed against indigenous people.

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