Word Finder - atoned

definition

To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency.

synonyms

• expiate
• propitiate

definition

To bring at one or at concordance; to reconcile; to suffer appeasement.

definition

To agree or accord; to be in accordance or harmony.

definition

To unite in making.

definition

To absolve (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.

Bloodshed could only be atoned by blood-money or by shedding the blood of the offender or of his family.

He had, as Demosthenes boasts, an action for outrage like a freeman, and his death at the hand of a stranger was avenged like that of a citizen (Eurip. Hec. 288), whilst, if caused by his master's violence, it had to be atoned for by exile and a religious expiation.

This seeming pedantry is, however, atoned for by the clear practical aim of his sermons, the noble ideal he keeps before his hearers, and the skill with which he handles spiritual experience and urges incentives to virtue.

Abroad the new King's position was prejudiced by the hideous crime which led to his accession, but among his own people this was from the first atoned for by the introduction of a real constitutional regime and increased political stability.

Thus McLeod Campbell (q.v.) held that Christ atoned by offering up to God a perfect confession of the sins of mankind and an adequate repentance for them, with which divine justice is satisfied, and a full expiation is made for human guilt.

His readiness and skill, his happy instinct for grace of arrangement, atoned for want of originality and real power.

In the part which deals with the period before 1186, it is true, there are various mistakes, due to the author's ignorance of contemporary history, but these slight blemishes are amply atoned for by the literary value of the work.

The celebration is based on the doctrine that the souls of the faithful which at death have not been cleansed from venial sins, or have not atoned for past transgressions, cannot attain the Beatific Vision, and that they may be helped to do so by prayer and by the sacrifice of the mass.

The extravagance of Frederick drained the resources of his state, but this was amply atoned for by the rigid economy of Frederick William I., who not only paid off the debts accumulated by his father, but amassed an enormous treasure.

These brilliant successes atoned for the disgrace of the convention of Wargaon in 1779, when the Mahrattas dictated terms to a Bombay force, but the war was protracted until 1782.

This can only be atoned with the original determination by fresh negation in which a new thought-determination is born, which is yet in a sense the old, though enriched, and valid on a higher plane.

Again Robertson Smith saw here the " theanthropic" animal, the Ox-God-man, eaten sacramentally by an ox-tribe, and so sacred that his death is a murder that must be atoned for in other ways and by a feigned resurrection.

Henry atoned for this by a reign marked by unceasing struggle against the great barons.

Walton almost atoned for his clanger in the 51st minute when Euell was upended right on the edge of the box.

Last of all came Bahadur Shah, who atoned for his association with the mutineers in 1857 by banish ment to Burma.

It is only in this sense that an evil deed can be atoned for by a good deed.

For instance, it has been held that Christ atoned for man k ind not by enduring the penalty of sin, but by identify views.