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 Atonement \A*tone"ment\, n.
   1. (Literally, a setting at one.) Reconciliation; restoration
      of friendly relations; agreement; concord. [Archaic]
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            By whom we have now received the atonement. --Rom.
                                                  v. 11.
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            He desires to make atonement
            Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers.
                                                  --Shak.
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   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.
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            When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best
            atonement be can make for it is, to warn others.
                                                  --Spectator.
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            The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that
            they were thought to have made a sufficient
            atonement for their former offense.   --Potter.
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   {Day of Atonement} (Jewish Antiq.), the only fast day of the
      Mosaic ritual, celebrated on the tenth day of the seventh
      month (Tishri), according to the rites described in
      Leviticus xvi. Also called {Yom Kippur}.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]