atonement

Making amends to restore a damaged relationship; expiation.

When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement he can make for it is, to warn others.

1697-1698, John Potter, Archaeologia Graeca The Phocians behaved themselves with so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense.

The reconciliation of God and mankind through the death of Jesus.

Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; concord.

by whom we have now received the atonement

He desires to make atonement Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers.