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Definition of atonement
1 : reparation for an offense or injury : satisfaction a story of sin and atonement He wanted to find a way to make atonement for his sins.
2 : the reconciliation of God and humankind through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ
3 Christian Science : the exemplifying of human oneness with God
4 obsolete : reconciliation
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Vukovic says he's seen people re-enact Cersei's infamous walk of atonement through Old Town — a couple of them, like the tyrannical queen, without clothing.
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Brown would have her first chance for atonement leading off the bottom of the third.
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For the overwhelming majority of Muslims, Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, is a time of prayer and atonement.
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The country has never undergone a national atonement.
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BERLIN - A leading member of Germany's rising rightist party Alternative for Germany will be disciplined but not expelled after having caused widespread alarm with a speech challenging the national atonement for the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes.
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If Ashton's white yarmulke was truly a symbol of his gesture for atonement, then his Aunt, McGowan, concluded her remarks with a response.
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Origin and Etymology of atonement
see atone
ATONEMENT Defined for Kids
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playDefinition of atonement for Students
: a making up for an offense or injury
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