A-tōne'ment, n.
n. 1. Agreement; concord; reconciliation after enmity or controversy.
By whom we have now received the atonement. Rom. v. 11.
He seeks to make atonement Between the Duke of Gloster and your brothers. Shak.
Sense 2. Expiation; satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing or suffering that which is received in satisfaction for an offense or injury;—with for. Specifically, in theology, the expiation of sin made by the obedience and personal sufferings of Christ.
When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement he can make for it is, to warn others not to fall into the like. Spectator.
The Phocians behaved with so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense. Potter.