All 11 Uses of
reconcile
in
David Copperfield
- How can you reconcile it to your conscience, I wonder, to prejudice my own boy against me, or against anybody who is dear to me?†
Chpt 4-6
- She was very earnestly and humbly entreating Miss Murdstone's pardon, which that lady granted, and a perfect reconciliation took place.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- I am solemnly convinced that I never for one hour was reconciled to it, or was otherwise than miserably unhappy; but I bore it; and even to Peggotty, partly for the love of her and partly for shame, never in any letter (though many passed between us) revealed the truth.†
Chpt 10-12
- I thought, more than once, that it was well no serious cause of division had ever come between them; or two such natures — I ought rather to express it, two such shades of the same nature — might have been harder to reconcile than the two extremest opposites in creation.†
Chpt 28-30
- I must say that I had my doubts about the strict justice of this, and was not even frightened out of them by the bushel of wheat which reconciles all anomalies.†
Chpt 31-33
- 'He is an excellent man, most exemplary in every way; and he pointed out to her that she ought, as a Christian, to reconcile herself to the sacrifice (especially as it was so uncertain), and to bear no uncharitable feeling towards me.†
Chpt 40-42
- 'When we had comparatively reconciled Mrs. Crewler to it, we had to break it to Sarah.†
Chpt 40-42
- 'At any rate, they are all reconciled to it now, I hope?' said I. 'Ye-yes, I should say they were, on the whole, resigned to it,' said Traddles, doubtfully.†
Chpt 40-42
- I had been unhappy in trying it; I could not endure my own solitary wisdom; I could not reconcile it with her former appeal to me as my child-wife.†
Chpt 46-48
- 'Are you reconciled?'†
Chpt 55-57 *
- 'Are you reconciled?'†
Chpt 63-64
Definitions:
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(reconcile as in: reconciled their differences) to bring into agreementThe exact meaning of reconcile can depend upon its context. For example:
- "We reconciled our differences and are on friendly terms now." -- settled or found a way to accept
- "They did break up, but they reconciled since then." -- made up
- "I need to reconcile my goals with my abilities." -- make compatible
- "I need to reconcile my checkbook." -- get the checkbook numbers and the bank statement to agree
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(reconcile as in: reconciled herself to) to come to terms with