Emily Dickinson Lexicon

REC-ON-CIL-I-A'TION, n. [Fr. from L. reconciliatio.]

1. The act of reconciling parties at variance; renewal of friendship after disagreement or enmity. Reconciliation and friendship with God, really form the basis of all rational and true enjoyment. – S. Miller.
2. In Scripture, the means by which sinners are reconciled and brought into a state of favor with God, after natural estrangement or enmity; the atonement; expiation. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity. – Dan. ix. Heb. ii.
3. Agreement of things seemingly opposite, different or inconsistent. – Rogers.