Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of or qualified for reconciliation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being reconciled.
- Synonyms Appeasable, placable.
- Consistent (with).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being reconciled
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
reconciled . - noun Something that can be
reconciled .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being reconciled
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Examples
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It puts new emphasis on talks by Afghan tribal leaders with so-called reconcilable members of the Taliban, but not al Qaeda.
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He was talking to so-called reconcilable insurgents.
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'But in what terms reconcilable to Majesty, and, at the same time to truth, shall we speak of a late instruction to his Majesty's Governor of the colony of Virginia, by which he is forbidden to assent to any law for the division of a county, unless the new county will consent to have no representative in Assembly?
Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829
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But in what terms reconcilable to Majesty, and at the same time to truth, shall we speak of a late instruction to his Majesty's Governor of the colony of Virginia, by which he is forbidden to assent to any law for the division of a county, unless the new county will consent to have no representative in Assembly?
Autobiography 1821
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'But in what terms reconcilable to Majesty, and, at the same time to truth, shall we speak of a late instruction to his Majesty's Governor of the colony of Virginia, by which he is forbidden to assent to any law for the division of a county, unless the new county will consent to have no representative in Assembly?
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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Why should the so-called reconcilable and neutral Afghans side with the losing side and that too for a wrong cause?
Asian Tribune 2009
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Senior U.S. officials, including key military commanders, have recently spoken about the possibility of dialogue with so-called reconcilable elements of the Taliban, a category that implicitly does not include Mullah Omar.
GlobalSecurity.org 2008
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Senior U.S. officials, including key military commanders, have recently spoken about the possibility of dialogue with so-called reconcilable elements of the Taliban, a category that implicitly does not include Mullah Omar.
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One acts retributively, the other compassionately; one by laws of natural consequence, the other by supernatural intervention; one goes by desert, the other by self-sacrifice transcending desert; one condemns just where the other undertakes to even justify; so that, factors though they be in forwarding a common result, we should not be surprised to find them set against each other in Scripture terms, and described as reconcilable, only in the fact that one pays tribute to the other.
The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation. 1802-1876 1871
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The U.S. went so far as to question Pakistan's wisdom for even considering the Haqqanis "reconcilable" given how tightly-entwined they were with al Qaeda.
Michael Hughes: Afghanistan's Plea to the U.S.: 'Don't Do Us Any Favors' Michael Hughes 2011
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