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How to pronounce atonement in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms expiation, satisfaction
Type of redress, restitution, damages, indemnification, indemnity, amends
Derivation atone
Type Words
Synonyms expiation, propitiation
Type of salvation, redemption
Has types reparation, amends
Derivation atone

Examples of atonement

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It used soaring rhetoric to wash away animosities in a sea of instant atonement.
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I guess it's a matter of atonement that we owe something to the prairie chicken.
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This personal atonement attitude may have been the result of a Mormon upbringing.
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These four characters have agreed to help Xuanzang as an atonement for past sins.
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Atonement is a doctrine that describes how human beings can be reconciled to God.
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Thus Christ's atonement is intended for all, but requires faith to be effected.
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Instead of finding atonement in politics, Arguello found controversy and ridicule.
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The Christ I serve died a very public death as the atonement sacrifice for my sin.
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It's a myth that Intolerance was some sort of atonement for Birth of a Nation.
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More examples
  • Compensation for a wrong; "we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store"
  • Expiation: the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)
  • (atone) expiate: make amends for; "expiate one's sins"
  • (atone) repent: turn away from sin or do penitence
  • "Atonement" is an episode from the fourth season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.
  • Atonement is a 2007 film adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel of the same name, directed by Joe Wright, based on a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, and starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, and Saoirse Ronan. ...
  • Atonement is a 2001 novel by British author Ian McEwan.
  • Penal substitution is a theory of the atonement within Christian theology, especially associated with the Reformed tradition. ...
  • The satisfaction view of the atonement is a doctrine in Christian theology related to the meaning and effect of the death of Jesus Christ and has been traditionally taught in Catholic, Lutheran, and Reformed circles. ...