- Atonement
- The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any
crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty.
- The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or
sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement.
- An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted
among the ancient heathen.
- Atonement
- Penitence
- Self-punishment
- Repentance.
- Pain; sorrow; suffering.
- A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon
for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly
in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the
transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman
Catholic Church.
- To impose penance; to punish.