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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  atonement
       n 1: compensation for a wrong; "we were unable to get
            satisfaction from the local store" [syn: {expiation}, {satisfaction}]
       2: the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially
          appeasing a deity) [syn: {expiation}, {propitiation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "atonement":
     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
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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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