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Rapprochement   Listen
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Rapprochement  n.  Act or fact of coming or being drawn near or together; establishment or state of cordial relations. "He had witnessed the gradual rapprochement between the papacy and Austria."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Rapprochement" Quotes from Famous Books



... Utopian to form the subject of definite proposals, but if this present crisis, so much more acute than any that Europe has gone through for generations, be safely passed, I am hopeful that the relief and reaction which will follow may make possible some more definite rapprochement between the Powers than has ...
— Right Above Race • Otto Hermann Kahn

... signifie?... Ce style peut-etre bien n'est accuse d'etre mauvais, precieux, guinde, recherche, que parce que les pensees qu'il exprime sont extremement fines, et ont du se former d'une liaison d'idees singulieres, lesquelles idees ont du a leur tour etre exprimees par le rapprochement de mots et de signes qu'on a rarement vus aller ensemble." We should have to tell him to think less, or else urge the others to allow him to use the only expressions possible of conveying his thoughts, even should they appear precieuses. If, then, his ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux



Words linked to "Rapprochement" :   cooperation, reconciliation



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