atonement

• compensation for a wrong
• the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)
• Reconciliation
• Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury

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