Word Meanings - ATONEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; agreement; concord. By whom we have now received the atonement. Rom. v. 11. He desires to make atonement Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers. Shak. 2. Satisfaction or reparation

Additional info about word: ATONEMENT

1. Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; agreement; concord. By whom we have now received the atonement. Rom. v. 11. He desires to make atonement Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers. Shak. 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. When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement be can make for it is, to warn others. Spectator. The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense. Potter.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ATONEMENT)

• Amends
• compensation
• satisfaction
• acknowledgment
• atonement
• expiation
• recompense
• indemnity
• remuneration
• apology
• reparation
• restitution
• Compensation
• Remuneration
• equivalent
• wages
• pay
• allowance
• restoration
• indemnification
• amercement
• damages
• Mediation
• Interference
• interposition
• reconciliation
• arbitration
• adjustment
• Redemption
• Repurchase
• retrieval
• ransom
• rescue
• recovery
• fulfilment
• discharge
• salvation
• Reparation
• Restoration
• repair
• amends

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ATONEMENT)

• endanger
• imperil
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• expose

Related words: (words related to ATONEMENT)

• APOLOGY
  1. Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem;
• WAGES
  A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2. The wages of sin is death. Rom. vi. 23. Wages fund , the aggregate capital existing at any time in any country, which theoretically is
• REDEMPTIONER
  1. One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude. 2. Formerly, one who, wishing to emigrate from Europe to America, sold his services for a stipulated time to pay the expenses of his passage.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• INDEMNITY
  1. Security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty. Having first obtained a promise of indemnity for the riot they had committed. Sir W. Scott. 2.
• RESCUER
  One who rescues.
• REDEMPTIONIST
  A monk of an order founded in 1197; -- so called because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans. Called also Trinitarian.
• REPARATION
  1. The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway; -- in this sense, repair is oftener used. Arbuthnot. 2. The act of making amends or giving satisfaction
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• RECOMPENSER
  One who recompenses. A thankful recompenser of the benefits received. Foxe.
• RECOMPENSE
  recompensare, fr.L. pref. re- re- + compensare to compensate. See 1. To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. He can not recompense me better. Shak. 2. To return an equivalent for;
• RESTITUTION
  The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body. (more info) 1. The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• EXPOSE
  1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
• INTERPOSITION
  insertion, fr. interponere, interpositum: cf. F. interposition. See 1. The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation. 2. The thing interposed.
• RECOMPENSEMENT
  Recompense; requital. Fabyan.
• REPAIR
  fr. L. repatriare to return to one's contry, to go home again; pref. re- re- + patria native country, fr. pater father. See Father, and 1. To return. I thought . . . that he repaire should again. Chaucer. 2. To go; to betake one's self; to resort;
• ABANDON
  To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender;
• SURRENDER
  To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. (more info) 1. To yield to the power
• RECONCILIATION
  1. The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship. Reconciliation and friendship with God really form the basis of all rational and true enjoyment. S. Miller. 2. Reduction
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• MISADJUSTMENT
  Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.
• UNSATISFACTION
  Dissatisfaction. Bp. Hall.
• READJUSTMENT
  A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.
• DISREPAIR
  A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair. The fortifications were ancient and in disrepair. Sir W. Scott.
• PREADJUSTMENT
  Previous adjustment.