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Atonement

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Atonement, an agreement, union, or reconciliation. The word has been said to be compounded of at and one, as it were a making at one, and hence to have acquired the meaning of suffering the pains of whatever sacrifice is necessary to bring about a reconciliation.

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