All 13 Uses of
reconcile
in
Mansfield Park
- ...and she addressed Lady Bertram in a letter which spoke so much contrition and despondence, such a superfluity of children, and such a want of almost everything else, as could not but dispose them all to a reconciliation.
Chpt 1 (definition 1) *reconciliation = making peace and coming together after being split by disagreement
- It required a longer time, however, than Mrs. Norris was inclined to allow, to reconcile Fanny to the novelty of Mansfield Park, and the separation from everybody she had been used to.
Chpt 2 (definition 2)reconcile = bring to terms (make comfortable)
- "Cousin," said she, "something is going to happen which I do not like at all; and though you have often persuaded me into being reconciled to things that I disliked at first, you will not be able to do it now."
Chpt 3 (definition 2) *reconciled = accepting (coming to terms with)
- Fanny sighed, and said, "I cannot see things as you do; but I ought to believe you to be right rather than myself, and I am very much obliged to you for trying to reconcile me to what must be."
Chpt 3 (definition 2)reconcile = bring to terms
- 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.
Chpt 3 (definition 2)reconciled = accepting (having come to terms with)
- The necessity of the measure in a pecuniary light, and the hope of its utility to his son, reconciled Sir Thomas to the effort of quitting the rest of his family, and of leaving his daughters to the direction of others at their present most interesting time of life.
Chpt 3 (definition 2)reconciled = brought to acceptance
- Miss Crawford, however, with renewed animation, soon went on— "I am conscious of being far better reconciled to a country residence than I had ever expected to be."
Chpt 22 (definition 2)reconciled = accepting (having come to terms with)
- …already, though when I first heard of such things being done in England, I could not believe it; and when Mrs. Brown, and the other women at the Commissioner's at Gibraltar, appeared in the same trim, I thought they were mad; but Fanny can reconcile me to anything;
Chpt 24 (definition 2)reconcile = bring to terms
- …nor till he returned safe and well, without accident or discredit, could she be reconciled to the risk, or feel any of that obligation to Mr. Crawford for lending the horse which he had fully intended it should produce.
Chpt 24 (definition 2)reconciled = accepting (brought to terms with)
- His going, though only eight miles, will be an unwelcome contraction of our family circle; but I should have been deeply mortified if any son of mine could reconcile himself to doing less.
Chpt 25 (definition 2)reconcile = accept (bring to terms)
- A great deal of good sense followed on Sir Thomas's side, tending to reconcile his wife to the arrangement.
Chpt 29 (definition 2)reconcile = make accepting (bring to terms)
- Fanny, now at liberty to speak openly, felt more than justified in adding to his knowledge of her real character, by some hint of what share his brother's state of health might be supposed to have in her wish for a complete reconciliation.
Chpt 47 (definition 1)reconciliation = making peace and coming together after being split by disagreement
- These were the circumstances and the hopes which gradually brought their alleviation to Sir Thomas, deadening his sense of what was lost, and in part reconciling him to himself; though the anguish arising from the conviction of his own errors in the education of his daughters was never to be entirely done away.
Chpt 48 (definition 1)reconciling = making up (after disagreement)
Definitions:
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(1) (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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(2) (reconcile as in: reconciled herself to) to come to terms with