The act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity.
The act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)
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Examples for "atonement "
Examples for "atonement "
1 My only hope is atonement ; and for now that means finding Tommy.
2 The incarnation is a pledge and anticipation of the work of atonement .
3 The trouble about the atonement is, that it saves the wrong man.
4 And even if the numbers proved otherwise, I'm not interested in atonement .
5 But the laws of our country must have their satisfaction and atonement .
1 I'm afraid this is not a question of regret but of expiation .
2 The dream of empire was gone; the day of expiation was begun.
3 Kim said shakily, If expiation is needed, it is mine to seek.
4 This is the movement of the romance, and then comes the expiation .
5 That would be the real expiation , not burying myself in a convent.
1 Religion rose from rituals of propitiation , spells to lull the punishing elements.
2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only.
3 Perhaps he divined that his lady would not need so much propitiation .
4 Such is in brief the ceremony of propitiation of the Cholera-Goddess.
5 If Dana can affect me the way she is tonight, she deserves propitiation .
6 We know that the merits of Christ alone are a propitiation for us.
7 There were certain rites to be performed, in propitiation of the Dark Father.
8 They moved about us with a kind of ceremony of propitiation .
9 April could have shaken her, but it seemed wiser to try propitiation instead.
10 But, sometimes, Silk noticed the taint of propitiation in their offerings.
11 For to be true to her, one cannot attempt at propitiation .
12 The mercy-seat covering the ark of the covenant was called propitiation (Exod.
13 It matters not where you leave what's left, or even that you make propitiation .
14 All the altar stones were of sapphire, as symbols of the propitiation of sins.
15 They were then a part of the ritual of propitiation .
16 But he was easy of propitiation , and over a handful of dried raisins communicative.
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