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- noun Plural form of
reconcilement .
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Examples
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About four weeks had now passed over, marked by quarrels and reconcilements between the crusaders and the Grecians of the empire.
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I had had experience, in the shock of that very day, that I could, even thus soon, find comforting reconcilements to the change that had fallen on me.
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Contrariwise, certain Laodiceans, and lukewarm persons, think they may accommodate points of religion, by middle way, and taking part of both, and witty reconcilements; as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.
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By his advice and counsels were accords and reconcilements no less firmly made than if the verdict of a sovereign judge had been interposed therein, although, in very deed, he was no judge at all, but a right honest man, as you may well conceive, — arg. in l. sed si unius.ff. de jure-jur. et de verbis obligatoriis l. continuus.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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By his advice and counsels were accords and reconcilements no less firmly made than if the verdict of a sovereign judge had been interposed therein, although, in very deed, he was no judge at all, but a right honest man, as you may well conceive, — arg. in l. sed si unius.ff. de jure-jur. et de verbis obligatoriis l. continuus.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The spot whereon we were stationed commanded a view of the hill which superimpends our village, and we were therefore gratified to think that we should have an early view of the expected travellers; and many quarrels and soft reconcilements did take place between my younger ones, upon the point of who would be the first to see their approach.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
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"Ideal" swept away ambiguous terms and hollow reconcilements; it contrasted, however clumsily, the types of saintliness which were in dispute; it claimed for the Catholic standard not toleration, but supremacy; and it put the Church of England on its knees before Rome.
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Contrariwise, certain Laodiceans and lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways, and taking part of both, and witty8 reconcilements; as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.
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But if so, there is no need of elaborate reconcilements of revelation and science; they reconcile themselves the moment any scientific truth is distinctly ascertained.
Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell.
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It is not a useful lesson for the young student to apply to Scripture principles which he would hesitate to apply to other books; to make formal reconcilements of discrepancies which he would not think of reconciling in ordinary history; to divide simple words into double meanings; to adopt the fancies or conjectures of Fathers and Commentators as real knowledge.
Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell.
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