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Atonement
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What's The Definition Of Atonement?
[n] the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)
[n] compensation for a wrong; "we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store" Synonyms | Synonyms for Atonement: expiation | expiation | propitiation | satisfaction Related Terms | Find terms related to Atonement: amends | appeasement | balancing | blood money | commutation | compensation | consideration | counteraction | counterbalancing | damages | expiation | guerdon | honorarium | indemnification | indemnity | lex talionis | making good | meed | offsetting | paying back | payment | penance | price | propitiation | quittance | recompense | rectification | redress | refund | reimbursement | remuneration | reparation | repayment | requital | requitement | restitution | retaliation | retribution | return | revenge | reward | salvage | satisfaction | smart money | solatium | squaring | substitution | wergild See Also | amends | amends | damages | indemnification | indemnity | redemption | redress | reparation | restitution | salvation Atonement In Webster's Dictionary \A*tone"ment\, n.
1. (Literally, a setting at one.) Reconciliation; restoration
of friendly relations; agreement; concord. [Archaic]
By whom we have now received the atonement. --Rom.
v. 11.
He desires to make atonement Betwixt the Duke of
Gloucester and your brothers. --Shak.
2. Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent
for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be
received in satisfaction for an offense or injury;
expiation; amends; -- with for. Specifically, in theology:
The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal
suffering, and death of Christ.
When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best
atonement be can make for it is, to warn others.
--Spectator.
The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that
they were thought to have made a sufficient
atonement for their former offense. --Potter.
\A*tone"ment\, n. {Day of Atonement} (Jewish Antiq.), the only fast day of the Mosaic ritual, celebrated on the tenth day of the seventh month (Tisri), according to the rites described in Leviticus xvi. Atrium \A"tri*um\, n. (Anat.) A cavity, entrance, or passage; as, the atrium, or atrial cavity, in the body wall of the amphioxus; an atrium of the infundibula of the lungs, etc. |
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