atonement

«atonement» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: making amends; making up for a wrong — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

making amends; making up for a wrong

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

In these texts, a gift or offering to God that makes up for a sin. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it means making up for a wrong you have done to someone. The old sense is a religious offering for sin.

examples

• one he-goat, to make atonement for you. (Torah NUM.28.30, JPS 1917) tree →
• and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you. (Torah NUM.28.22, JPS 1917) tree →
• and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you; (Torah NUM.29.5, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 80 (Torah 79, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 9.1 (Torah alone 184.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• As hath been done this day, so the LORD hath commanded to do, to make atonement for you.
• and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you.
• one he-goat, to make atonement for you.
• and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you;
• Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; so shall they consecrate it.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «atonement» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.