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RECONCILED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made compatible or consistent
Classified under:
Similar:
consistent ((sometimes followed by 'with') in agreement or consistent or reliable)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb reconcile
Context examples:
My manner as I thus addressed him was impressive but calm; I had formed in my own heart a resolution to pursue my destroyer to death, and this purpose quieted my agony and for an interval reconciled me to life.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Well, propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“At any rate, they are all reconciled to it now, I hope?” said I.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But it is done; we are reconciled, dearer, much dearer, than ever, and no moment's uneasiness can ever occur between us again.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I cannot be so easily reconciled to myself.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
A cluster of tea-rose buds at the bosom, and a ruche, reconciled Meg to the display of her pretty, white shoulders, and a pair of high-heeled silk boots satisfied the last wish of her heart.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
These false informations, which I afterwards came to the knowledge of by an accident not proper to mention, made the treasurer show his lady for some time an ill countenance, and me a worse; and although he was at last undeceived and reconciled to her, yet I lost all credit with him, and found my interest decline very fast with the emperor himself, who was, indeed, too much governed by that favourite.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I had depended on her fortitude too far, and the blow was a severe one—but had her marriage been happy, so young as I then was, a few months must have reconciled me to it, or at least I should not have now to lament it.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He could not but wonder at her refusing to do anything for a niece whom she had been so forward to adopt; but, as she took early care to make him, as well as Lady Bertram, understand that whatever she possessed was designed for their family, he soon grew reconciled to a distinction which, at the same time that it was advantageous and complimentary to them, would enable him better to provide for Fanny himself.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Many a time, as a little child, I should have been glad to love you if you would have let me; and I long earnestly to be reconciled to you now: kiss me, aunt.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
