English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "versoen" is om 'n vriendelike of harmonieuse verhouding te herstel tussen twee of meer partye wat in konflik of onenigheid was. Dit kan ook verwys na die handeling om 'n situasie of 'n feit te aanvaar wat voorheen onaanvaarbaar of moeilik was om te aanvaar. Daarbenewens kan die woord die handeling beskryf om twee botsende oortuigings of idees met mekaar versoenbaar te maak.

Sentence Examples

  1. He was the first to admit that he spent far too much time propping up the bar in the Green Man and was reconciled to his status as a high-functioning alcoholic.
  2. Beside him glided Caderousse, whose desire to partake of the good things provided for the wedding party had induced him to become reconciled to the Dantès, father and son, although there still lingered in his mind a faint and unperfect recollection of the events of the preceding night just as the brain retains on waking in the morning the dim and misty outline of a dream.
  3. She had to see them, had to know that the brothers had reconciled and were, indeed, collaborating on their mating call for her.
  4. His companions suggested only what could palliate imprudence, or smooth objections and by the time they had talked it all over together, and he had talked it all over again with Emma, in their walk back to Hartfield, he was become perfectly reconciled, and not far from thinking it the very best thing that Frank could possibly have done.
  5. She seems somehow more reconciled or else the very subject seems to have become repugnant to her, for when any accidental allusion is made she actually shudders.
  6. However, when she had awhile seen my behavior, and how well I observed the signs her husband made, she was soon reconciled, and by degrees grew extremely tender of me.
  7. These false informations, which I afterwards came to the knowledge of by an accident not proper to mention, made Flimnap the treasurer show his lady for some time an ill countenance, and me a worse and although he was at last undeceived and reconciled to her, yet I lost all credit with him, and found my interest decline very fast with the emperor himself, who was, indeed, too much governed by that favorite.
  8. To conclude, Ricote liberally recompensed and rewarded as well the renegade as the men who had rowed and the renegade effected his readmission into the body of the Church and was reconciled with it, and from a rotten limb became by penance and repentance a clean and sound one.
  9. Mercédès, although deposed from the exalted position she had occupied, lost in the sphere she had now chosen, like a person passing from a room splendidly lighted into utter darkness, appeared like a queen, fallen from her palace to a hovel, and who, reduced to strict necessity, could neither become reconciled to the earthen vessels she was herself forced to place upon the table, nor to the humble pallet which had become her bed.
  10. Morpheus, the tutelary deity of the apartment, towards whom Louis raised his eyes, wearied by his anger and reconciled by his tears, showered down upon him the sleep-inducing poppies with which his hands are ever filled so presently the monarch closed his eyes and fell asleep.