All 4 Uses of
reconcile
in
Brave New World
- Success went fizzily to Bernard's head, and in the process completely reconciled him (as any good intoxicant should do) to a world which, up till then, he had found very unsatisfactory.
p. 157..2reconciled = brought acceptance in
- But, reconciled by his success, he yet refused to forego the privilege of criticizing this order.
p. 157..4 *reconciled = persuaded to accept things
- And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering.
p. 238..0reconcile = make accepting
- Seeing them, the Savage made a grimace; but he was to become reconciled to them in course of time; for at night they twinkled gaily with geometrical constellations, or else, flood-lighted, pointed their luminous fingers (with a gesture whose significance nobody in England but the Savage now understood) solemnly towards the plumbless mysteries of heaven.
p. 245..2reconciled = accepting
Definition:
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(reconcile as in: reconciled herself to) to come to terms with