Atonement is the concept of a person taking action to correct previous wrongdoing, either through direct action, equivalent action, or expression of remorse. Learn about the different names, meanings, and religious views of atonement in various contexts and traditions. A popular definition is that atonement is “at-one-ment”; in other words, it is the way that we are made one with God when we used to be alienated from Him by our sins. 4 meanings: 1. satisfaction, reparation, or expiation given for an injury or wrong 2. Christian theology a. the reconciliation.... Click for more definitions. Atonement is something that you do to show that you are sorry for something bad that you did. Learn more about the meaning , usage and pronunciation of atonement with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.
