atonement

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/əˈtoʊnmənt/

Definition of atonement

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Making amends to restore a damaged relationship; expiation.
    “When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement he can make for it is, to warn others.”
    “1697-1698, John Potter, Archaeologia Graeca The Phocians behaved themselves with so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Making amends to restore a damaged relationship; expiation.
    “When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement he can make for it is, to warn others.”
    “1697-1698, John Potter, Archaeologia Graeca The Phocians behaved themselves with so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense.”
  2. (countable, often, uncountable)The reconciliation of God and mankind through the death of Jesus.
  3. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; concord.
    “by whom we have now received the atonement”
    “He desires to make atonement Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers.”

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Etymology

Perhaps from atone + -ment as translation of Medieval Latin adūnāmentum; however, the noun is found earlier than the verb (atone); and in this light, the proper etymology is at + onement.

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