- Day of Atonement
- 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. [1913 Webster]
He desires to make atonement Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement be can make for it is, to warn others. --Spectator. [1913 Webster]
The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense. --Potter. [1913 Webster]
{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.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.