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atonement

noun as in compensation

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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

He’s continued to use this language that evokes the theological logic of substitutionary atonement, where he bravely offers himself to be sacrificed on behalf of his followers.

From Salon

So, too, will Germany, whose support for Israel, rooted in atonement for the Holocaust, is second only to that of the United States.

What full atonement would look like is still up for discussion, but in the meantime the tribe is in the process of acquiring additional lands by year’s end, he says.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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