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Atonement and atoning both derive from the verb atone, from the Middle English attone or atoon (meaning "agreed" or "at one"). [3] Expiation is related to the verb expiate, from Latin expio meaning "to atone" or "to purge by sacrifice", from ex-("out") and pio ("to purify", "to make pious").
Prāyaścitta (Sanskrit: प्रायश्चित्त) is the Sanskrit word which means "atonement, penance, expiation". [1] [2] [3] In Hinduism, it is a ...
Sonnet 22 uses the image of mirrors to argue about age and its effects. The poet will not be persuaded he himself is old as long as the young man retains his youth. On the other hand, when the time comes that he sees furrows or sorrows on the youth's brow, then he will contemplate the fact ("look") that he must pay his debt to death ("death my days should expiate").
The case for translating hilasterion as "expiation" instead of "propitiation" was put forward by British scholar C. H. Dodd in 1935 and at first gained wide support. . Scottish scholars Francis Davidson and G.T. Thompson, writing in The New Bible Commentary, first published in 1953, state that "The idea is not that of conciliation of an angry God by sinful humanity, but of expiation of sin by ...
Morden is slightly injured in the duel, but Lovelace dies of his injuries the following day. Before dying he says "let this expiate!" Clarissa's relatives finally realise they have been wrong but it comes too late. They discover Clarissa has already died. The story ends with an account of the fate of the other characters.
Yom Kippur (/ ˌ j ɒ m k ɪ ˈ p ʊər, ˌ j ɔː m ˈ k ɪ p ər, ˌ j oʊ m-/ ⓘ YOM kip-OOR, YAWM KIP-ər, YOHM-; [1] Hebrew: יוֹם כִּפּוּר Yōm Kippūr [ˈjom kiˈpuʁ], lit. ' Day of Atonement ') is the holiest day of the year in Judaism.
The response of man is to be reparation through adoration, prayer, and sacrifice. In Roman Catholic tradition, an act of reparation is a prayer or devotion with the intent to expiate the "sins of others", e.g. for the repair of the sin of blasphemy, the sufferings of Jesus Christ or as Acts of Reparation to the Virgin Mary.
There are various versions, but it is in Conon's account that the king must expiate this himself by self-exile: Crotopus was a terrifying father to Psamathe, and she exposed the child, but the child was found and grew up as a shepherd's boy named Linus , until Crotopus's sheepdogs tore the boy apart.