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/ɹəˈpɹɒʃmɒ̃/ · noun
The reestablishment of cordial relations, particularly between two countries; a reconciliation..
It was the Nixon administration that saw the rapprochement between the United States and China.
The inauguration of a liberal order of things, a rapprochement of the [First French] Empire with constitutionalism and Parliamentary government, had been expected from the Speech from the Throne now just given. This expectation is completely disappointed by the speech. …
Not forever, however, was the animal world to suffer this indignity at the hands of man. Thinkers themselves prepared the way for a rapprochement between the two. More particularly the English philosophers from [John] Locke onward, together with their French followers, […] may be said by a sort of leveling-down process to have favored the idea of a mental kinship between man and brute.
M. [Aristide] Briand, in a statement on the French foreign policy said a lasting European peace was impossible without a Franco-German rapprochement.
Attempts at a Hungarian–Yugoslavian rapprochement are not a recent matter, and Italy has always approved of them. But in the past these attempts had been made with the idea of breaking up the Little Entente and isolating Yugoslavia.
Moreover, the reactionary economic and political forces in south Korea show little sympathy with the commission meetings now being held in an effort to achieve American-Russian rapprochement. Instead, their program calls for American pressure to dislodge Russia and the Communists from north Korea, by force if necessary.
Further, I argue that [Robin George] Collingwood's final work is in fact the culmination of his persistent endeavour to bring about rapprochements between philosophy and history, and between theory and practice.
“These norms were laid in the early 2000s, when Seoul’s so-called sunshine policy took off,” Sung-Yoon Lee, a Korea expert at Tufts University, told The Washington Post last week, referring to a rapprochement policy adopted by South Korea.
Use rapprochement when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Rapprochement means The reestablishment of cordial relations, particularly between two countries; a reconciliation..
Common synonyms include reconciliation.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It was the Nixon administration that saw the rapprochement between the United States and China.
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