atonement

[ UK /ɐtˈə‍ʊnmənt/ ]
[ US /əˈtoʊnmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. compensation for a wrong
    we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store
  2. the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)
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How To Use atonement In A Sentence

  • The two offerings together symbolized a community of people at peace with God because atonement for sins had been made.
  • It needed expiation - atonement to remove guilt and the liability of punishment.
  • And now this settlement and atonement was handselled and was well kept afterwards. The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor
  • True Christianity is about judgment, atonement and forgiveness and NOT unreciprocated outreach contrary to what the beardie-weirdie and his acolytes might say. How Do Y0u Solve A Problem Like Sharia
  • Besides the goat offered for the people the blood of which was sprinkled before the mercy seat, the high priest led forth a second goat, namely, the scapegoat; over it he confessed the people's sins, putting them on the head of the goat, which was sent as the sin-bearer into the wilderness out of sight, implying that the atonement effected by the goat sin offering (of which the ceremony of the scapegoat is a part, and not distinct from the sin offering) consisted in the transfer of the people's sins on the goat, and their consequent removal out of sight. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Look around you for pictures that you really like, and in buying which you can help some genius yet unperished -- that is the best atonement you can make to the one you have neglected -- and give to the living and struggling painter at once wages, and testimonial. A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)
  • His death made a perfect and full atonement for sin.
  • The end of His reconciling atonement by death. holy -- positively; and in relation to God. unblamable ... unreprovable -- negatively. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • A number of theologians have recently articulated a vision of the atonement in similar images.
  • They deny both the necessity and the validity of atonement by the death of the Cross, and affirm that its propitiation is not necessary to salvation.
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