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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Acquit :: Acquit (v. t.) To pay for; to atone for.
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..
Apology :: Apology (n.) An acknowledgment intended as an atonement for some improper or injurious remark or act; an admission to another of a wrong or discourtesy done him, accompanied by an expression of regret..
Propitiate :: Propitiate (v. i.) To make propitiation; to atone.
Atoner :: Atoner (n.) One who makes atonement.
Partialist :: Partialist (n.) One who holds that the atonement was made only for a part of mankind, that is, for the elect..
Inexpiable :: Inexpiable (a.) Admitting of no expiation, atonement, or satisfaction; as, an inexpiable crime or offense..
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..
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..
Piation :: Piation (n.) The act of making atonement; expiation.
Supererogation :: Supererogate (v. i.) To do more than duty requires; to perform works of supererogation; to atone (for a dificiency in another) by means of a surplus action or quality.
Socinianism :: Socinianism (n.) The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin was the imitation of Adam's sin, and that human salvation was the imitat
Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (n.) Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation..
Expiator :: Expiator (n.) One who makes expiation or atonement.
Expiation :: Expiation (n.) The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement.
Atoned :: Atoned (imp. & p. p.) of Aton.
Atone :: Atone (v. i.) To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime..
Atone :: Atone (v. t.) To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease..
Dispense :: Dispense (v. t.) To pay for; to atone for.
Atonable :: Atonable (a.) Admitting an atonement; capable of being atoned for; expiable.
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