reconciliation🔊

The re-establishment of friendly relations; conciliation, rapprochement.

(accounting) The process of comparing and resolving apparent differences between sets of accounting records, or between accounting records and bank statements, receipts, etc.

(Christianity) The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of atonement.

(Christianity) The reconsecration of a desecrated church or other holy site.

(Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) Admission of a person to membership of the church, or readmission after the person has previously left the church.

(Roman Catholicism) 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.

(Australia, Canada) The process of systemically atoning for the crimes and broken promises that a nation has historically committed against indigenous people.