What is "atoning"

Usage examples of "atoning".

Nay, the pang would be scarcely less to believe that a fair intellect like that of Alfred Stevens, or a wild, irregular genius, like that of Margaret Cooper--because of its erring, either through perversity or blindness, is wholly to become defunct, so far as employment is concerned--that they are to be deprived of all privilege of working up to the lost places--regaining the squandered talents--atoning, by industry and humble desire, the errors and deficiencies of the past!

Trend said, "it is the responsibility of Atoning Un­ifex, acting with us in Quincunx, to define situations susceptible to such investigation.

Do you also agree that the gravity of the situation demands that we summon Atoning Unifex for a contemplation?

They further declined to put the matter to Atoning Unifex, their chief.

Unfortunately our leader, Atoning Unifex, has exercised summary veto, as is Its prerogative.

With his twinkling gray eyes and rosy cheeks, his smartly bar­bered white beard and hair, and his well-cut maroon three-piece suit with a sprig of holly in the buttonhole, Atoning Unifex might have served as the prototype for Santa Claus as boulevardier.

But now the Lylmik overlord named Atoning Unifex towered over him and Adrienne, resplen­dent in his archaic black-and-white formal wear.

The entity named Atoning Unifex decreed the Intervention and maintains that your ultimate Unification is .

Even the most scandalous doings of my illustrious family can be revealed in these chron­icles because the tenure of Atoning Unifex, Overlord of the Lylmik and founder of at least two Galactic Milieux, is finally at an end.

But the transcendent beauty of the modern drama is lent by the ethical idea of salvation through the love of pure woman--a salvation touching which no one can be in doubt when Tannhauser sinks lifeless beside the bier of the atoning saint, and Venus's cries of woe are swallowed up by the pious canticle of the returning pilgrims.

So wells and leaps each pulse of life in chorus of redemption, and both dissevered elements, both soul and senses, God and nature, unite in the atoning kiss of hallowed love.

In the original form of the opera there was no funeral procession and no death of the hero beside the bier of the atoning saint.

At such period he was a pattern parson and a pattern husband, atoning to his own conscience for past shortcomings by present zeal.

But now-- The order for foreclosing had gone forth, and the harpies of the law, by their present speed in sticking their claws into the carcass of his property, were atoning to themselves for the delay with which they had hitherto been compelled to approach their prey.

But with His atoning blood and His Holy Spirit all things are possible--even our salvation.