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# atonement

noun

«atonement» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

In these texts, a gift or offering to God that makes up for a sin. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/atonement/#m1)

### Then and now

Today it means making up for a wrong you have done to someone. The old sense is a religious offering for sin.

### Examples

- one he-goat, to make atonement for you. (Torah NUM.28.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/atonement/#x1)
- and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you. (Torah NUM.28.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/atonement/#x2)
- and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you; (Torah NUM.29.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/atonement/#x3)

### Note

Today: making amends; making up for a wrong.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «atonement» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/atonement/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«atonement» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/atonement.html) on Mova free.