n. The act of reconciling parties at variance; renewal of friendship after disagreement or enmity.n. The act of harmonizing or making consistent; an agreement of things seemingly opposite, different, or inconsistent.n. Eccles.: Removal of the separation made between God and man by sin; expiation; propitiation; atonement.n. Restoration to sacred uses after desecration, or to communion with the church. See reconcile, 6.n. Synonyms Atonement, Expiation, etc. (see propitiation); reconcilement, appeasement, pacification, reunion.