Definition of Atonement

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Atonement

Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; agreement; concord.

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.

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Atonement Quotations

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
Lord Byron

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden

What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?
Aeschylus

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.
Lionel Blue

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.
Josiah Royce

Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.
Janet Suzman

These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false.
John Harvey Kellogg

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.
Mike Piazza

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
Otto Weininger

Atonement Translations

atonement in Italian is espiatorio
atonement in Latin is piaculum

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