Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Reconciliation; peace.
  • Reconciled; agreed; at one.
  • To reconcile.

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  • noun obsolete Reconciliation; peace.

Etymologies

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From saughte, seihte, from Old English saht, seaht, seht ("settlement, arrangement, agreement, terms arranged between two parties by an umpire, a peace between two powers, friendship, peace"), from Proto-Germanic *sahtiz (“reproach, agreement, reconciliation”), from Proto-Indo-European *sāg- (“to seek, trace”). Cognate with Icelandic sátt ("reconciliation, settlement").

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