Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes atonement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes atonement.
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- noun   One who atones .
Etymologies
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Examples
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								If I explain the atonement otherwise than they explain it, they assert that I deny the atonement; nor count it of any consequence that I say I believe in the atoner with my whole heart, and soul, and strength, and mind. Unspoken Sermons Second Series 1824-1905 1885 
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								The potency of sin is not recognized; evil is only an individual, not an historical power; hence there is no need of redemption, but only of personal works on the basis of prophetic instruction; Mohammed is only a teacher, not an atoner. Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873 
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								If I explain the atonement otherwise than they explain it, they assert that I deny the atonement; nor count it of any consequence that I say I believe in the atoner with my whole heart, and soul, and strength, and mind. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864 
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								The government says nearly 40,000 have escaped the war zone and now been sheltered in welfare villages while atoner 70,000 is trapped by the Tigers. 
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								The government says nearly 40,000 have escaped the war zone and now been sheltered in welfare villages while atoner 70,000 is trapped by the Tigers. 
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								Under the other school of thought, the burden of proof is definitely on the atoner. Pragmatic Compendium 2008 
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								_karma_ is realized and every soul atones for its own sin, it nevertheless remains true that the element of consciousness separates the person who sinned from him who suffers; and one becomes the involuntary atoner and the other the atoned for. 
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