Definition of atone

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Atone (v. i.) To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime..

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Atonement :: Atonement (n.) 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..
Inexpiable :: Inexpiable (a.) Admitting of no expiation, atonement, or satisfaction; as, an inexpiable crime or offense..
Atone :: Atone (v. t.) To make satisfaction for; to expiate.
Partialist :: Partialist (n.) One who holds that the atonement was made only for a part of mankind, that is, for the elect..
Expiate :: Expiate (v. t.) To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin..
Abye :: Abye (v. t. & i.) To pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction.
Answer :: Answer (n.) To atone; to be punished for.
Hicksite :: Hicksite (n.) A member or follower of the liberal party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827..
Atone :: Atone (v. t.) To unite in making.
Expiation :: Expiation (n.) The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement.
Offering :: Offering (n.) That which is offered, esp. in divine service; that which is presented as an expiation or atonement for sin, or as a free gift; a sacrifice; an oblation; as, sin offering..
Graining :: Graining (n.) Painting or staining, in imitation of the grain of wood, atone, etc..
Atone :: Atone (v. t.) To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease..
Atonement :: Atonement (n.) Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; agreement; concord.
Piation :: Piation (n.) The act of making atonement; expiation.
Atone :: Atone (v. i.) To agree; to be in accordance; to accord.
Inexpiably :: Inexpiably (adv.) In an inexpiable manner of degree; to a degree that admits of no atonement.
Expiation :: Expiation (n.) The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty.
Unatonable :: Unatonable (a.) Incapable of being atoned for; inexpiable.
Propitiation :: Propitiation (n.) That which propitiates; atonement or atoning sacrifice; specifically, the influence or effects of the death of Christ in appeasing the divine justice, and conciliating the divine favor..
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