Reconciliation

Noun

1. The re-establishment of friendly relations; conciliation, rapprochement.

   "He longed for reconciliation with his estranged father, but painful memories made him feel unready to do so."

2. The process of comparing and resolving apparent differences between sets of accounting records, or between accounting records and bank statements, receipts, etc.
3. Religious senses. The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of atonement. The reconsecration of a desecrated church or other holy site. Admission of a person to membership of the church, or readmission after the person has previously left the church. Ellipsis of sacrament of reconciliation (“a sacrament (sacred ritual) also called confession, involving contrition by a person, confessing sins to a priest, penance performed by the person, and absolution granted by the priest”).
4. The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of atonement.
5. The reconsecration of a desecrated church or other holy site.