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.
A resolution of a dispute.
The act of settling.
A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.
The state of being settled.
A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
A mutual agreement to end a dispute without resorting to legal proceedings, also known as an out-of-court settlement or settling out of court.
The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled (even in past times).
A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.