Atonement - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: atonementAtonement
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....
Expiable
Capable of being expiated or atoned for as an expiable offense expiable guilt...
Expiate
To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent to make complete satisfaction for to atone for to make amends for to make expiation for as to expiate a crime a guilt or sin...
Expiation
The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty...
Expiator
One who makes expiation or atonement...
Expiatory
Having power or intended to make expiation atoning as an expiatory sacrifice...
Hicksite
A member or follower of the ldquoliberalrdquo party headed by Elias Hicks which because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States in 1827...
Inexpiably
In an inexpiable manner of degree to a degree that admits of no atonement...
Piacular
Expiatory atoning...
Piation
The act of making atonement expiation...
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