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atonement|əˈtəʊnmənt| Also 6 attonment, 6–7 attonement. [In use a verbal n. from atone, but apparently of prior formation, due to the earlier n. onement and the phrase ‘to be atone’ or ‘at onement.’ Cf. the following:
1533Q. Cath. Parr Erasm. Comm. Crede 162 To reconcile hymselfe and make an onement with god. 1599Bp. Hall Sat. iii. vii. 69 Which never can be set at onement more. 1555Fardle Facions ii. xii. 298 The redempcion, reconciliacion, and at onement of mankinde with God the father.] †1. The condition of being at one with others; unity of feeling, harmony, concord, agreement.
1513More Rich. III Wks. 41 Having more regarde to their olde variaunce then their newe attonement. 1554Philpot Exam. & Writ. (1842) 330 What atonement..is there betwixt light and darkness. 1610Healey St. Aug. City of God 763 Beasts should live at more attonement and peace betweene them-selves. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. xxv. (1632) 129 After three great and dangerous Battles came to an attonement. 1623Cockeram, Atonement, quietnesse. †2. The action of setting at one, or condition of being set at one, after discord or strife: a. Restoration of friendly relations between persons who have been at variance; reconciliation. Obs.
1513More Edw. V Wks. 40 Of which..none of vs hath any thing the lesse nede, for the late made attonemente. 1577Holinshed Chron. II. 98 At length an attonment was concluded betwixt him and the king. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. iii. 36, I Madam, he desires to make attonement Betweene the Duke of Glouster, and your Brothers. 1632Massinger Maid of Hon. v. ii, As a perfect sign of your atonement with me, You wish me joy. 1685Morden Geog. Rect. 201 The atonement made by Hannibal..between Bruneus and his Brother. †b. The settling of differences, staunching of strife; appeasement. Obs.
1605Play of Stucley (1878) 227 There shall be now atonement of this strife. 1622Heylin Cosmogr. i. (1682) 215 Made Umpire for the atonement of some differences betwixt Henry..and John. †c. The means or agent of appeasement. Obs.
1752Law Spir. Love (1816) ii. 69 Water is the proper atonement of the rage of fire; and that which changes a tempest into a calm, is its true atonement. 3. spec. in Theol. Reconciliation or restoration of friendly relations between God and sinners.
1526Tindale 2 Cor. v. 18 God..hath geven unto us the office to preache the atonement. a1569A. Kingsmill Man's Est. vi. (1580) 28 If God did..vouchsafe to make atonement with us. 1611Bible Rom. v. 11 Our Lorde Iesus Christ, by whom we haue now receiued the atonement [Wyclif, recouncilyng, or accordyng; Tindale, Cranmer, attonment; Coverdale, attonement; Genev. atonement; Rhem. & Revised, reconciliation]. 1650S. Clarke Eccl. Hist. (1654) I. 29 We must not come to make an attonement with God..before we have made attonement with our Brother. 1852[See in 4 ⁋]. 4. Propitiation of an offended or injured person, by reparation of wrong or injury; amends, satisfaction, expiation.
1611Bible Job. xxxiii. 24 Deliuer him from going downe to the pit; I haue found a ransome [marg. atonement]. 1711Addison Spect. No. 8 ⁋7 The best Atonement he can make for it, is to warn others. 1768Blackstone Comm. I. 131 No suitable atonement can be made for the loss of life, or limb. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. III. xx. 494 No atonement is offered to their injured dignity. b. Theol. Propitiation of God by expiation of sin.
1611Bible Lev. i. 4 It shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. 1714Addison Spect. No. 580 ⁋3 The High-Priest..having made an Atonement for the Sins of the People. 1876Norris Rudim. Theol. i. iii. 61 The old word atonement..has by a true instinct been deepened into the idea on which it rests, and has come to carry with it the idea of propitiation or expiation. ¶ As applied to the redemptive work of Christ, atonement is variously used by theologians in the senses of reconciliation, propitiation, expiation, according to the view taken of its nature. (Not so applied in any version of the N.T.)
1630Prynne Anti-Armin. 158 Saued onely by meanes of his aduocation and attonement. 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. (1852) vii. 199 The efficacy of the Christian atonement is deduced solely from the appointment of it by God. 1847H. Miller First Impr. i. 5 A Scottish religious controversy of the present time regards the nature and extent of the atonement. 1852Robertson Serm. Ser. iv. xlvi. 345 The atonement between God and man consisted of two parts: God atoned to man by the work of Christ; man atoned to God by the work of the Christian ministry. 1860E. D. Griffin in Disc. & Treat. Atonem. 149 Atonement is that which was adapted to prevent punishment, or that which came in the room of punishment, and laid a foundation for our discharge from every part of the curse. 1860C. Burge ibid. 437 The necessity of some atonement in order that sinners may be consistently pardoned. 5. Comb. † atonement-maker, one who makes atonement, a reconciler or mediator; † atonement-making, reconciliation, propitiation; atonement-money, money paid in expiation of offences.
c1540Becon New-Y. Gift Wks. 1843, 314 There is one Atonementmaker between God and men. 1587Golding De Mornay vi. 70 Men were forbidden to vtter the vncommunicable name of God..saue onely in the daies of attonementmaking. 1611Bible Ex. xxx. 16 And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel. |