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atonement

/uh-tohn-muhnt/US // əˈtoʊn mənt //UK // (əˈtəʊnmənt) //

赎罪,赎回,赔偿金,补偿

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : satisfaction or reparation for a wrong or injury; amends.
    • : Theology. the doctrine concerning the reconciliation of God and humankind, especially as accomplished through the life, suffering, and death of Christ.
    • : Christian Science. the experience of humankind's unity with God exemplified by Jesus Christ.
    • : Archaic. reconciliation; agreement.

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Examples

  • For the first few months of this season, road trips for the Astros amounted to something like a traveling atonement carnival.

  • Johnson notes that the conversation on reparations, which falls under atonement, needs to be expanded.

  • That racial reconciliation will involve the acknowledgment of the wrong that’s been done, an apology, and atonement.

  • You wrote, “His advocacy was a form of atonement but also deflection.”

  • Citizen Kane, at least in Mank’s telling, is equal parts his stroke of revenge and his plea for atonement.

  • For all our sins, may the Force that makes forgiveness possible forgive us, pardon us, and make atonement possible.

  • His public atonement and embrace of Westergaard might force Akkari himself to live with perpetual police protection.

  • What do you like to snack on while writing or reading Atonement?

  • Five means atonement; 10 means completeness; 17 means heaven.

  • But my burden is nothing compared to her loss and the suffering her family had to endure…Atonement is a process that never ends.

  • It was not alone the slaying and offering of sacrifice, but also the sprinkling of blood that made atonement.

  • You may think I'm offering myself as a sort of vicarious atonement—if your Doris fails you—but I'm not, really.

  • The old woman has died, and her daughter Chane is brought before us on the same Atonement day.

  • The reference to the "many women," "beholding afar off," forms a pathetic close to the story of the Great Atonement Day.

  • The purpose of the writer is to teach the entire separateness of Christs atonement.