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  • noun Common misspelling of atonement.

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  • Touching the nature of the attonement, it is not amisse to consider, that what was by this word attonement ex - prest under the first Testament, while that Priesthood stood, hath been since under the administration of the last Testament, that is established upon better promises than that, been exprest more frequently by the word Eeconcili - ation, and therefore the word that in the 5 Rom.

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

  • I have read attonement, a fabulous novel, and a sure “heart string puller” and when i heard of the movie review, I did not wish to see the movie, fear of ruining the book and the writers talent.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Tolkien Vs. New Line Cinema 2008

  • Maybe you are starting Lent early and wish to suffer as attonement for your sins, or some such.

    Camp Hillary: Floridians Will Be Heard! 2009

  • As a lamb without blemish was the only acceptable sacrifice that a man could give for the temporary attonement of sin... the word lamb was God referring to Jesus as the perfect unblemished sacrifice of God fully acceptable for the payment of ALL sin.

    Kirk Cameron attempts to debunk Darwin 2009

  • Maybe you are starting Lent early and wish to suffer as attonement for your sins, or some such.

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Camp Hillary: Floridians Will Be Heard! 2009

  • Karen is desperate for Matt both for protection and for attonement, and the best that she can get is Foggy, who is dumpy, clumsy, and virtually powerless.

    Top 100 Comic Book Runs #45-41 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • This understanding of the passion makes deeper sense to me than the others — though I recognize that it poses problems for the whole idea of ‘attonement’.

    The anxiety of tapering, and some links at Hugo Schwyzer 2004

  • The trouble with the basic ‘contractual’ models of the attonement is that they end up imputing either too much power to the devil who is capable of holding sinful humanity hostage until Christ pays the ransom, or too much punitive wrath to God the Father.

    The anxiety of tapering, and some links at Hugo Schwyzer 2004

  • I am nothing my heart is cold there's nothign I can do to change it my heart is blacker now my attonement has come By: Tasha T. dead - alive

    godhatesu Diary Entry godhatesu 2004

  • But Blondello perceived (to his cost) that hee had met with the worser bargaine, and Guiotto got cheare, without any blowes: and therefore desired a peacefull attonement, each of them (alwayes after) abstaining from flouting one another.

    The Decameron 2004

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