atonement
/əˈtoʊnmənt/ noun C2- Making amends to restore a damaged relationship; expiation.
- The reconciliation of God and mankind through the death of Jesus.
Plural atonements
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No doubt, Lord Cantlemere, your pleasure in telling of this successful result in the exalted circle to which you return will be some small atonement for my practical joke.
“Though it is difficult,” said Jane, “to guess in what way he can mean to make us the atonement he thinks our due, the wish is certainly to his credit.”
This was his plan of amends--of atonement--for inheriting their father’s estate; and he thought it an excellent one, full of eligibility and suitableness, and excessively generous and disinterested on his own part.
May God accept my atonement in the preservation of these two existences!”
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