<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>The attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion.</li><li>In Grammar, the merging, as by historical change in a language, of two or more categories in a specified environment into one, such as the use of "was" with both singular and plural subjects in nonstandard English, while in standard English "was" is used with singular subjects (except for "you" in the second person singular) and "were" with plural subjects.</li></ul>