atonement

atonement has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; agreement; concord.
• n.. Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends; -- with for. Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ.
• n.. the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)
• n.. compensation for a wrong; "we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store"