atonement

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What moment a man feels that he belongs to God utterly, the atonement is there, the son of God is reaping his harvest.

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  1. noun Amends or reparation made for an injury or wrong; expiation.
  2. noun Reconciliation or an instance of reconciliation between God and humans.
  3. noun Christianity The reconciliation of God and humans brought about by the redemptive life and death of Jesus.

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  • He has ruined the daughter of a brazier.--If the best lord in the land degrades himself by a crime, you can't call his atonement for it a condescension Sir Simon. —  John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts
  • Because, in vindictive justice the atonement is made according to the judge's decision, and not according to the discretion of the offender or of the person offended; whereas, in Penance, the offense is atoned according to the will of the sinner, and the judgment of God against Whom the sin was committed, because in the latter case we seek not only the restoration of the equality of justice, as in vindictive justice, but also and still more the reconciliation of friendship, which is accomplished by the offender making atonement according to the will of the person offended. —  Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
  • Minty felt, despairingly, that this atonement was impossible But suddenly a bright idea struck her. —  Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
  • It was a heavy load, but Earl tugged manfully in an enthusiasm of remorse and atonement--a fantastic, extravagant atonement, planned by that same fertile fancy which had invented that story for poor little Jenny, but instigated by all the good, repentant impulses in the boy's nature On every one of those neat parcels, above his own name, was written in his big crooked, childish hand, "Jenny Brown, from--" Earl Munroe had not saved one Christmas-present for himself Pulling along, his eyes brilliant, his cheeks glowing, he met Maud Barker. —  Young Lucretia and Other Stories
  • It's my atonement--ain't that the word? —  The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
 

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  1. from atone, v., + -ment; but the noun is found earlier than the verb, arising perhaps from the phrase at onement: see onement.
 

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