reconciliation

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

the state of agreeing with someone or something
agreementThere's widespread agreement that something must be done.
acceptanceHis views never gained acceptance among the broader community.
concordanceThe study shows strong concordance between patient health and patient happiness.
assentThe bill received royal assent.
consentI give my consent to the marriage.
sanctionShe gave official state sanction to the drilling company for their proposed pipeline.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Accepting & agreeing
accepting
accommodation
accreditation
agree to something
agree with something
assent
compact
conclusion
countenance
currency
formal
pre-approved
presumed consent
ratification
ratify
re-establish
regrant
root
signatory
unquestioning

rapprochement | American Dictionary

rapprochement
noun[ C/U ]
 fmlus/ˌræpˌroʊʃˈmɑ̃/
agreement reached by opposing groups or people:
[ C ]Both countries have agreed to seek a rapprochement.

Examples of rapprochement

rapprochement
In this rapprochement of the (selectively) universal and the (extended) local, the study of scientific styles may help save contextual historiography from its own success.
His work elucidates how forces larger than just the two communities and their own process of accommodation and rapprochement inform negotiations about failed partnerships.
Consciously or not, nature writing, whether poetic, scientific, or horticultural, marks the impossibility of integration or full rapprochement between the human and the natural world.
But is such a rapprochement possible when the starting points and fundamental assumptions of anthropology and demography are often so diametrically opposed?
Some considered that, in order for this rapprochement to happen, agreement between governments was first required.
This made some conclude that internal political change was needed before international rapprochement was possible.
This way of framing twoprocess theories provides almost complete rapprochement between the perspectives of evolutionary psychology and the heuristics-and-biases approach.
An equally telling example of the uneasy rapprochement between art and technology is embodied in the mid-century popularity of photography.
Let rapprochement be the order of the day.
This makes it natural to work for a rapprochement between the technological, humanistic, humanitarian and artistic aspects of sound and the acoustic environment.
So, does the cycle end with a rapprochement of their positions?
In this situation, the inevitable happened: rapprochement with the occupation forces, deliberate collaboration.
It might not be possible to achieve a rapprochement, but we benefit from both models of history writing.
Byzantium rewarded the rapprochement by handing over precious manuscripts.
It may turn out that such networks contributed at least as much to rapprochement, to exorcising the past and to re-establishing constructive bilateral relationships, as did official diplomacy.
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