rapprochementn.
/rəˈprɒʃmɒ̃/, /raˈprɒʃmɒ̃/, U.S. /ˌræprɔʃˈmɑnt/, /ˌrɑprɔʃˈmɑnt/ A coming or bringing together; an establishment or resumption of harmonious relations, esp. between nations.
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society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > [noun] > establishing harmonious relations
rapprochement1795
1795 W. Short Let. 29 Jan. in T. Jefferson Papers (2000) XXVIII. 253 An inquiry into what they have done..would form a rapprochement that would aid in the history of the progress of the human heart.
1809 Edinb. Rev. 14 228 One of the opinions..deserves to be mentioned, as exhibiting a curious rapprochement.
1888 Times (Weekly ed.) 6 July 8/3 A rapprochement between the Russian and Austrian governments.
1905 Daily Chron. 19 Jan. 4/3 The retiring Premier is fully justified in claiming as a distinctive mark of his Government that it aimed at a ‘rapprochement between peoples’.
1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 207 The same rapprochement between highbrow and lowbrow..can be seen in literature.
1992 New Yorker 6 July 35/2 It was not only territorial prerogatives that made this such an uneasy rapprochement, on both sides; the two men had little in common.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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