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Noun

rapprochement (plural rapprochements)

  • 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. …1
    • ✤ 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.2
    • ✤ M. [Aristide] Briand, in a statement on the French foreign policy said a lasting European peace was impossible without a Franco-German rapprochement.3
    • ✤ 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.4
    • ✤ 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.5
    • ✤ 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.6
    • ✤ “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.7
    • ✤ The fighting […] threatens to upend recent efforts to de-escalate tensions across the wider Middle East, whose rival powers, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, have made steps toward rapprochement in recent days after years of turmoil.8
    • ✤ Critics, including many veterans of the diplomatic corps, have been alarmed by Mr. Trump’s apparent rapprochement with Russia.9

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French rapprochement (“act or process of getting closer together; link (between two things)”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɹəˈpɹɒʃmɒ̃/, /ɹæ-/
  • (General American) IPA: /ɹæpɹoʊʃˈmɑn/, /-ˈmɑ̃/
  • Audio (Australian): 🔊
  • Hyphenation: rap‧proche‧ment

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

  1. 1869 December 11, “The Changes in the Government of France (Die Neue Freie Presse —Vienna, Nov. 30.)”, in *Public Opinion […] *, volume XVI, number 429, London: Printed by Charles Wyman, […], →OCLC, page 738, column 2: ↩

  2. 1892 February, James Sulley, “Is Man the Only Reasoner?”, in The Popular Science Monthly, volume XL, New York, N.Y.: Popular Science Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 506: ↩

  3. 1926 December 2, “‘No victors’ if European war starts: French foreign policy: China and Italy”, in The Daily Examiner, volume 18, number 2721 (New Series), Grafton, N.S.W.: Printed and published by William Frederick Blood, of Grafton, for the Daily Examiner, Limited, […], →OCLC, page 5: ↩

  4. 1940 January, “Italy’s Living Room”, in The Living Age, volume 357, number 4480, New York, N.Y.: The Living Age Company Inc., →OCLC, section II (Eyes to the Balkans: Translated from Europe Nouvelle, Paris Political and Literary Weekly), page 475, column 1: ↩

  5. 1947 September 10, Thoburn T. Brumbaugh, “Soviet Nightmare in Korea”, in The Christian Century, volume LXIV, number 37, Chicago: Christian Century Foundation, page 1077, column 1: ↩

  6. 1989, David Boucher, “The New Leviathan in Context”, in The Social and Political Thought of R. G. Collingwood, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 27: ↩

  7. 2018 June 4, Dominique Mosbergen, “Another Summit Snafu: Who’s Going to Pay for Kim Jong Un’s Singapore Hotel Room? […]”, in HuffPost ‎: ↩

  8. 2023 March 24, Eric Schmitt, “Conflict in Syria Escalates Following Attack That Killed a U.S. Contractor”, in The New York Times ‎, →ISSN: ↩

  9. 2025 February 19, Ken Bensinger, Michael M. Grynbaum, “Right-Wing Media Praises U.S.-Russia Talks as ‘Breath of Fresh Air’”, in The New York Times ‎, →ISSN: ↩

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