Atonement

ATONEMENT

-noun

1. satisfaction, reparation, or expiation given for an injury or wrong

2, (often capital) (Christian theology)

a. the reconciliation of man with God through the life, sufferings, and sacrificial death of Christ

b. the sufferings and death of Christ

3. (Christian Science) the state in which the attributes of God are exemplified in man

4. (obsolete) reconciliation or agreement

Such are born rumours

Of children drowned

Liquid sacrifices

In exchange for atonement