The act of allying or uniting.
Marriage.
The persons or parties allied.
The state of being allied.
A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.
Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
The re-establishment of friendly relations; conciliation, rapprochement.
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.
The process of comparing and resolving apparent differences between sets of accounting records, or between accounting records and bank statements, receipts, etc.
The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of atonement.
The process of systemically atoning for the crimes and broken promises that a nation has historically committed against indigenous people.