n.
- Amends or reparation made for an injury or wrong; expiation.
- Reconciliation or an instance of reconciliation between God and humans.
- Atonement Christianity. The reconciliation of God and humans brought about by the redemptive life and death of Jesus.
- Obsolete. Reconciliation; concord.
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