Definition of Atoning

1. Verb. (present participle of atone) ¹

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Definition of Atoning

1. atone [v] - See also: atone

Lexicographical Neighbors of Atoning

atoneth
atonia
atonias
atonic
atonic bladder
atonic dyspepsia
atonic ectropion
atonic entropion
atonic seizure
atonic ulcer
atonically
atonicities
atonicity
atonics
atonies
atoning (current term)
atoningly
atony
atop
atopen
atopic
atopic allergy
atopic asthma
atopic cataract
atopic dermatitis
atopic eczema
atopic keratoconjunctivitis
atopic reagin
atopical
atopies

Literary usage of Atoning

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. New Testament Theology: Or, Historical Account of the Teaching of Jesus and by Willibald Beyschlag, Neil Buchanan (1895)
"THE QUESTION OF THE atoning SACRIFICE OF CHRIST As to the Old Testament idea of sacrifice, which our author more than any other writer of the New Testament ..."

2. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Emanuel Vogel Gerhart (1894)
"THE DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST : HIS atoning SACRIFICE. § 258. In performing His, mediatorial work the Mediator reaches the lowest stage of humiliation on the ..."

3. A Letter to the Right Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London, in by Edward Bouverie Pusey, Charles James Blomfield (1851)
"But the mode of that atoning Death, as typified by God's ... All sacrifices, types of the atoning Sacrifice, (except the scape-goat, which was an image of ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace (1922)
"... of faith and practice; the Apostles' and written by seven Oxford men, and the attitude of and "the vital importance of belief in the atoning criticized. ..."

5. The Foundations of History, a Series of First Things by Samuel Bradhurst Schieffelin (1865)
"They also retained, in some form or other, the divinely appointed mode of approach to God through an atoning sacrifice. Let us now examine the views of some ..."

6. A treatise on the origin of expiatory sacrifice by George Stanley Faber (1827)
"Respecting the Objection founded upon the alleged Circumstance, that there is no express Mention of the atoning Virtue of Sacrifice under the Patriarchal ..."

7. The Christian Examiner (1831)
"The atoning Sacrifice, a Display of Love, not of Wrath. By NOAH WORCESTER. Second edition. Cambridge, Billiard &L Brown. 1830. 12mo. pp. 247. ..."

8. Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher (1875)
"... THE atoning GOD. " Seeing then that we have a great high-priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. ..."

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