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Definition of Atonement

1. Noun. Compensation for a wrong. "We were unable to get satisfaction from the local store"

2. Noun. The act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity).

Definition of Atonement

1. n. Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; agreement; concord.

Definition of Atonement

1. Noun. A repair done for the sake of a damaged relationship. ¹

2. Noun. (theology often with capitalized initial) The reconciliation of God and mankind through the death of Jesus. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Atonement

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Atonement

1. 1. (Literally, a setting at one) Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; agreement; concord. "By whom we have now received the atonement." (Rom. V. 11) "He desires to make atonement Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers." (Shak) 2. 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. "When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement be can make for it is, to warn others." (Spectator) "The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense." (Potter) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Atonement

atomtronics atomy atonable atonal atonalism atonalisms atonalist atonalistic atonalists atonalities

atonality atonally atone atoneable atoned atonement atonements atoner atoners atones

atonest atoneth atonia atonias atonic atonic bladder atonic dyspepsia atonic ectropion atonic entropion atonic seizure

Literary usage of Atonement

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

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"It has, for example, been taught as such in the former country by Joseph Gilbert (The Christian Atonement, London, 1836), and in especially well worked-out ..."

2. Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum ...by George Knottesford Fortescue by George Knottesford Fortescue (1902)
"LIAS (JJ) The Atonement, in the light of modern difficulties, pp.154. Loni. iBS-1. 8°. 4227. bb. ... HALL (CN) Atonement the fundamental fact 4429. df. 3G. ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The atoning ritual reached its climax on the Day of Atonement DT??? eft-, ... The laws of the-Day of Atonement belong to the Priestly Code. ..."

4. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1915)
"It seems fair, therefore, to expect that where the modern mind finds the unity of the apostolic doctrine of the atonement, it will also find it« finality ..."

5. The Christian Examiner (1843)
"ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE Atonement. THE doctrine of the atonement is sometimes described, ... Those who embrace the " could not" theory of the atonement, ..."

6. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1882)
"HISTORIC STAGES OF THE THEORY OF THE Atonement. THE primary meaning of the word Atonement as given by Webster is agreement, concord. ..."

7. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"This document embraces five points, namely, Election based on the foreknowledge of faith, universal Atonement, in the room of Atonement made for the elect ..."

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