ATONEMENT


Meaning of ATONEMENT in English

If you do something as an ~ for doing something wrong, you do it to show that you are sorry. (FORMAL)

He’s living in a monastery in a gesture of ~ for human rights abuses committed under his leadership...

= repentance

N-UNCOUNT: oft N for n

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