ATONEMENT in Spanish - Cambridge Dictionary

Translation of atonement – English–Spanish dictionary

atonement

noun [ U ]
  formal
uk
/əˈtəʊn.mənt/
us
/əˈtoʊn.mənt/
something that you do to show that you are sorry for something bad that you did
expiación, desagravio
He said that young hooligans should do community service as atonement for their crimes. Dijo que los jóvenes gamberros deberían prestar servicios a la comunidad como reparación por sus delitos.

(Translation of atonement from the Cambridge English-Spanish Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of atonement

atonement
The thesis that moral faith must take precedence over the historical knowledge of the atonement emphasizes that which is in our power.
We can do so by exploring a little more closely the sort of atonement relevant in the case of a failure merely in intention.
The phenomena of recognition, its withdrawal, and atonement or restoring of recognition are too deep in the human psyche, too integral to the relationship between self and other.
Its traditional stress on biblical authority and substitutionary atonement did not slacken.
If we choose not to make atonement for hurting others in the only relevant way - namely directly to them - we must live with this failure.
So there is no need for additional reparation, and the satisfaction theory of the atonement is otiose.
In this conceptualisation, the purge acted as a means of atonement that would redeem not only the transgressor but the entire community.
The antithesis is connected with the problem of the need for a vicarious atonement for our transgressions.
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Translations of atonement

in Chinese (Traditional)
贖(罪), 彌補,補償(過錯)…
in Chinese (Simplified)
赎(罪), 弥补,补偿(过错)…
in Portuguese
expiação, reparação…
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