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Definition of Atonement

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. Related Definitions: Agreement, Amends, An, And, Be, By, Christ, Concord, Death, Doing, Equivalent, Expiation, For, Friendly, Giving, In, Injury, Made, Obedience, Of, Offense, Or, Personal, Received, Reconciliation, Reparation, Restoration, Satisfaction, Sin, Specifically, Suffering, That, The, Theology, Which, Will, With

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

Atonement Translations atonement in Italian is espiatorio atonement in Latin is piaculum

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