reconciliation vs separation

reconciliation

noun
  • 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 re-establishment of friendly relations; conciliation, rapprochement. 

  • 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. 

separation

noun
  • Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely. 

  • An agreement legalizing such an arrangement. 

  • An object that separates two spaces. 

  • The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated. 

  • The act or condition of two or more people being separated from one another. 

  • The place at which a division occurs. 

  • An interval, gap or space that separates things or people. 

  • The act or condition of a married couple living in separate homes while remaining legally married. 

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