atonement

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1. Amends or reparation made for an injury or wrong; expiation.

a. Reconciliation or an instance of reconciliation between God and humans.

b. Atonement Christianity The reconciliation of God and humans brought about by the redemptive life and death of Jesus.

3. Obsolete Reconciliation; concord.

atonement [əˈtəʊnmənt]

1. satisfaction, reparation, or expiation given for an injury or wrong

2. (Christian Religious Writings / Theology) (often capital) Christian theol

a. the reconciliation of man with God through the life, sufferings, and sacrificial death of Christ

b. the sufferings and death of Christ

3. (Christian Religious Writings / Theology) Christian Science the state in which the attributes of God are exemplified in man

4. Obsolete reconciliation or agreement

[from Middle English phrase at onement in harmony]

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Noun	1.	atonement - compensation for a wrong; "we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store" expiation, satisfaction amends, damages, indemnification, redress, restitution, indemnity - a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
	2.	atonement - the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity) expiation, propitiation redemption, salvation - (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil amends, reparation - something done or paid in expiation of a wrong; "how can I make amends"

atonement

noun amends, payment, compensation, satisfaction, redress, reparation, restitution, penance, recompense, expiation, propitiation True guilt is marked by a willingness to make atonement.

Translations

atonement [əˈtəʊnmənt] N → expiación f
to make atonement for → enmendar, desagraviar
Day of Atonement → Día m de la Expiación

atonement [əˈtəʊnmənt] n → expiation f, rÃ©paration f

atonement

n → Sühne f, → Buße f; to make atonement for something → für etw Sühne or Buße tun; in atonement for something → als Sühne or Buße für etw; the Atonement (Eccl) → das Sühneopfer (Christi)

atonement [əˈtəʊnmənt] n (frm) → espiazione f (Rel) → redenzione f
to make atonement for a mistake → riparare ad un errore

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amends
Amyraldism
Azazel
conscience money
damages
Day of Atonement
Diagonial
expiation
Hicksite
High Holiday
High Holy Day
indemnification
major fast day
McEwan
Partialist
penance
Piation
propitiation
redemption

Rook lifted her hand solemnly "Say," she answered, "that a dying sinner is making atonement for sin.

I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context

As a sort of atonement she wrote 'Day after Day,' the story of a dismal and joyless orphan, who dies to the sound of angelic music, faint and farheard, filling the whole chamber.

My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context

Out came the sunset; but in spite of this heroic mutilation the editor of the Canadian Woman sent Averil's Atonement back so promptly that the indignant Diana declared that it couldn't have been read at all, and vowed she was going to stop her subscription immediately.

Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context

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