atonement

Example Sentences

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For all his personal failings, Bill Clinton has always clung to the promise of forgiveness and the process of atonement.

From Salon

In all fairness, we don’t know what level of atonement Pitt has made over the years.

From Salon

“There is and will not be any atonement for abandoning the captives,” he said.

From BBC

It does not cost anything, just a public act of atonement for past sins.

From BBC

Kalyan is also performing what he called 11 days of atonement rituals to rectify the "great injustice".

From BBC