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To atone for sins is a common religious theme.atone = make up
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Some think Yom Kippur is the most important Jewish holiday. On it, Jews fast and pray in atonement for their sins.atonement = the process of fixing or making up for a wrong
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She made a genuine effort to atone for her behavior.atone = make up (for a wrong)
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Our father had testified to her that Shawn had been cleansed by the Atonement of Christ, that he was a new man. (source)Atonement = paying for sins
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That was why Okonkwo had been Chosen by the nine villages to carry a message of war to their enemies unless they agreed to give up a young man and a virgin to atone for the murder of Udo's wife. (source)atone = make up (for a wrong)
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the Church of Sunday Atonement (source)Atonement = making up for a wrong
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This was some strange kind of atonement, (source)atonement = the process of fixing or making up for a wrong
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We knew we had been guilty, but now we had a way to atone for it. (source)atone = fix or make up (for a wrong)
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The living in incessant noise was, to a frame and temper delicate and nervous like Fanny's, an evil which no superadded elegance or harmony could have entirely atoned for. (source)atoned = made up
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Atoning for my sins?† (source)Atoning = of a wrong: fixing or making up for
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He atones for being occasionally somewhat over-dressed, by being always absolutely over-educated.† (source)atones = of a wrong: fixes or makes up for
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The heir of two centuries of unatoned insult and outrage looked down on him and seemed to drink in deep draughts of satisfaction.† (source)unatoned = of a wrong: not fixed or made up forstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unatoned means not and reverses the meaning of atoned. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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I dole them out equally, these offerings, these atonements, into the waiting hands of my friends.† (source)atonements = acts of fixing or making up for a wrong
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I was horribly embarrassed, feeling that my life had somehow been full of nameless wrong, an unatonable guilt.† (source)unatonable = of a wrong: not capable of being made up forstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unatonable means not and reverses the meaning of atonable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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This is the synagogue that young Rachel Shilsky walked to with her family and where Rabbi Shilsky led the congregation during the Jewish holidays Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and fasting. (source)atonement = making up (for wrongs)
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The thought was madness; it stirred the fiend within me—not I, but she, shall suffer; the murder I have committed because I am forever robbed of all that she could give me, she shall atone. (source)atone = pay for it
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