reconciliation vs understanding

reconciliation

noun
  • 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. 

understanding

noun
  • A reconciliation of differences. 

  • Opinion, judgement or outlook. 

  • An informal contract; mutual agreement. 

  • The act of one that understands or comprehends; comprehension; knowledge; discernment. 

  • Sympathy. 

  • Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer. 

adj
  • Showing compassion, tolerance, and forbearance. 

How often have the words reconciliation and understanding occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )