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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
amends, appeasement, balancing, blood money, commutation, compensation, consideration, counteraction, counterbalancing, damages, expiation, guerdon, honorarium, indemnification, indemnity, lex talionis, making good, meed, offsetting, paying back, payment, penance, price, propitiation, quittance, recompense, rectification, redress, refund, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, repayment, requital, requitement, restitution, retaliation, retribution, return, revenge, reward, salvage, satisfaction, smart money, solatium, squaring, substitution, wergild
Dictionary Results for atonement:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
atonement
    n 1: compensation for a wrong; "we were unable to get
         satisfaction from the local store" [syn: atonement,
         expiation, satisfaction]
    2: the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially
       appeasing a deity) [syn: expiation, atonement,
       propitiation]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]

3. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Atonement
   This word does not occur in the Authorized Version of the New
   Testament except in Rom. 5:11, where in the Revised Version the
   word "reconciliation" is used. In the Old Testament it is of
   frequent occurrence.
   
     The meaning of the word is simply at-one-ment, i.e., the state
   of being at one or being reconciled, so that atonement is
   reconciliation. Thus it is used to denote the effect which flows
   from the death of Christ.
   
     But the word is also used to denote that by which this
   reconciliation is brought about, viz., the death of Christ
   itself; and when so used it means satisfaction, and in this
   sense to make an atonement for one is to make satisfaction for
   his offences (Ex. 32:30; Lev. 4:26; 5:16; Num. 6:11), and, as
   regards the person, to reconcile, to propitiate God in his
   behalf.
   
     By the atonement of Christ we generally mean his work by which
   he expiated our sins. But in Scripture usage the word denotes
   the reconciliation itself, and not the means by which it is
   effected. When speaking of Christ's saving work, the word
   "satisfaction," the word used by the theologians of the
   Reformation, is to be preferred to the word "atonement."
   Christ's satisfaction is all he did in the room and in behalf of
   sinners to satisfy the demands of the law and justice of God.
   Christ's work consisted of suffering and obedience, and these
   were vicarious, i.e., were not merely for our benefit, but were
   in our stead, as the suffering and obedience of our vicar, or
   substitute. Our guilt is expiated by the punishment which our
   vicar bore, and thus God is rendered propitious, i.e., it is now
   consistent with his justice to manifest his love to
   transgressors. Expiation has been made for sin, i.e., it is
   covered. The means by which it is covered is vicarious
   satisfaction, and the result of its being covered is atonement
   or reconciliation. To make atonement is to do that by virtue of
   which alienation ceases and reconciliation is brought about.
   Christ's mediatorial work and sufferings are the ground or
   efficient cause of reconciliation with God. They rectify the
   disturbed relations between God and man, taking away the
   obstacles interposed by sin to their fellowship and concord. The
   reconciliation is mutual, i.e., it is not only that of sinners
   toward God, but also and pre-eminently that of God toward
   sinners, effected by the sin-offering he himself provided, so
   that consistently with the other attributes of his character his
   love might flow forth in all its fulness of blessing to men. The
   primary idea presented to us in different forms throughout the
   Scripture is that the death of Christ is a satisfaction of
   infinite worth rendered to the law and justice of God (q.v.),
   and accepted by him in room of the very penalty man had
   incurred. It must also be constantly kept in mind that the
   atonement is not the cause but the consequence of God's love to
   guilty men (John 3:16; Rom. 3:24, 25; Eph. 1:7; 1 John 1:9;
   4:9). The atonement may also be regarded as necessary, not in an
   absolute but in a relative sense, i.e., if man is to be saved,
   there is no other way than this which God has devised and
   carried out (Ex. 34:7; Josh. 24:19; Ps. 5:4; 7:11; Nahum 1:2, 6;
   Rom. 3:5). This is God's plan, clearly revealed; and that is
   enough for us to know.
   

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