OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 9949

atonement

/əˈtoʊnmənt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
desagravio
Making amends to restore a damaged relationship; expiation.
1697-1698, John Potter, Archaeologia Graeca The Phocians behaved themselves with so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offe…
When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement he can make for it is, to warn others.
expiación
The reconciliation of God and mankind through the death of Jesus.
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