What's the difference between atonement and reparation?

Atonement


Definition:

  • (n.) Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; agreement; concord.
  • (n.) 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; expiation; amends; -- with for. Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Crisis engulfs Gabon hospital founded to atone for colonial crimes Read more At least seven people died and more than 1,000 were arrested in violent protests following the announcement of the election result earlier this month, which the leader of the opposition, Jean Ping, said Bongo, the incumbent, had rigged.
  • (2) It was on that occasion that then-opposition leader Tony Abbott said , “we have never fully made peace with the first Australians ... we need to atone for the omissions and for the hardness of heart of our forbears to enable us all to embrace the future as a united people”.
  • (3) As it is, the victims of the 1971 act die un-atoned.
  • (4) Morrison, atoning for his earlier miss, drilled home Rondón’s acrobatic cutback to pull a goal back for Albion but within seven minutes Chelsea had a third.
  • (5) But the Conservatives should be asking Kaminski to withdraw his statements about Jedwabne, apologise for his attacks on a brave Polish president, Alexander Kwasniewski, who, like Willy Brandt, was willing to make symobolic atonement for the crimes done to Jews in the second world war.
  • (6) Atonic drop attacks appear to be a common cause of ictal epileptic falling in MAEE.
  • (7) Callosotomy proved efficient in controlling atonic fits in 10 out of 15 patients in whom surgical results are evaluated.
  • (8) The two countries are locked in a long-running territorial dispute over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea , known as the Diaoyu to the Chinese and Senkakus to the Japanese, and China complains Japan has failed to fully atone for its brutality in the second world war.
  • (9) 1 The action of three polypeptides, bradykinin, substance P and eledoisin known to inhibit vascular smooth muscle has been examined on the anococcygeus muscle of the rat, cat and rabbit.2 In the atonic rat muscle, bradykinin and substance P had little or no effect on tone but eledoisin produced a sustained dose-related contraction which could be abolished by phentolamine (1 muM) and is, therefore, probably an indirect sympathomimetic effect.
  • (10) If we lived in the Roman era, the driving goal of our culture might have been dignity; in the dark ages, honour, in the middle ages, atonement.
  • (11) Equally, punishment must be proportionate and fair and those who are incarcerated must have the prospect of atonement and rehabilitation.
  • (12) Direct observation of an atonic uterus at cesarean section supported other evidence that uterine muscle may be affected.
  • (13) One woman suffered from atonic post-partum haemorrhage.
  • (14) 8 findings specific to endometriosis and the scores were as follows: Dysmenorrhea (1), dyspareunia (3), retroverted uterus (3), cul-de-sac nodularities (3), atonic (1) and marginal irregularity (1) of uterus, and perifimbrial adhesion (2) in hysterosalpingography, and unexplained infertility (2).
  • (15) In our case, atonic partial seizure was associated with nonepileptic equilibrium impairment, probably due to cerebral cortex dysfunction.
  • (16) According to urodynamic findings the patients were divided into 2 groups: group 1 consisted of 9 neonates (30 per cent) with detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia and high pressure, decreased-compliance bladders, and group 2 consisted of 21 children (70 per cent) with atonic bladders and low pressure, reduced-compliance bladders without dyssynergia.
  • (17) Treatment can vary from none at all (eg, in the child with a single febrile seizure) to the use of more than one drug and the ketogenic diet (eg, in poorly controlled atypical absence, atonic, and some myoclonic disorders).
  • (18) Similar complaints may occur in elderly people or in women with gynaecological problems owing to atonic urinary retention.
  • (19) 5 women had abnormal gestations visible macroscopically, by their green, brown, clotted, folded or atonic gestational sac.
  • (20) -- Intravenous infusion of per-minute amounts between 40 and 80 micrograms in cases of atonic haemorrhage or between 30 and 45 micrograms in the placental period, in general, produced uterine contraction and clearly reduced blood loss.

Reparation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway; -- in this sense, repair is oftener used.
  • (n.) The act of making amends or giving satisfaction or compensation for a wrong, injury, etc.; also, the thing done or given; amends; satisfaction; indemnity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A polypotent mechanism of the stimulating effect of fibronectin instillations during all the stages of the reparative process in the corneal tissue was proved.
  • (2) These observations provide biochemical support for the hypothesis that the reparative process of injured tissue in the fetal rabbit proceeds in an attempt to reconstitute normality, i.e.
  • (3) It is thought that the mechanisms of resorption are: co-mingling with CSF and redistribution in the more acute variety and in instances of subdural hydromas; and thru the healing and reparative process in the chronic type.
  • (4) The formation of cavity is followed by asymmetrical segment demyelination and reparative hyperplasia of the astroglial cells and gliosis of the cavity walls.
  • (5) The kinetic and fine structural characteristics and site of origin of the resurfacing uterine lining, as well as the influence of ovarian hormonal stimuli on the reparative processes of experimentally injured endometrium in the rabbit, were studied by means of in vivo historadioautography and electron microscopy.
  • (6) Hence, reaction of chemical carcinogen with nuclear DNA is possible only when the cell is overwhelmed leading to cell death, or following a temporary breach of the nuclear membrane control points, but the DNA damage in the latter is totally reparable.
  • (7) Since the contraction of the wound in experimental animals was also more rapid (activization from the 3rd day), a conclusion can be made of the stimulating influence of LP on the course of the reparative regeneration of the epidermis observed as long as 1.5 weeks after a single injection of LP.
  • (8) After 4 days of treatment, the active-treated wounds had already reached the reparative phase, whereas the vehicle-treated wounds were still in the proliferative phase.
  • (9) If the villagers fail to respect the social code, by not using her new name or by reminding her of her indignity, they have to perform a reparative ritual, at which a goat is sacrificed.
  • (10) The modulative effect of the methods of general and local sorptive detoxication on the development of inflammatory reaction of the area of thermal trauma with reduction of damaging effect of proteolytic enzymes and formation of cellular reaction directed at protection from microorganisms and beginning of the proliferative stage of reparative regeneration is shown.
  • (11) Review of the FNA smears showed the findings to be more typical of a reparative or regenerative process; these findings had been cytologically overinterpreted, partly due to the lack of adequate clinical information submitted with the aspirate.
  • (12) It is indicated that in vitro and at implantation in preliminary infected ordinary and gunshot osseous wounds in rabbits and dogs gentacycol inhibits the growth of aerobic and, that is especially important, anaerobic microflora, limits the development of inflammatory Process and stimulates, to a certain extent, reparative osteogenesis.
  • (13) At this stage any attempt at definitive removal of diseased tissue would necessarily result in a larger dural defect at a time when local disease and systemic illness present unsuitable conditions for reparative procedures.
  • (14) Lower parameters of mononuclear content in dermocytograms during the course of treatment correspond to the disturbance of reparative capacities of the organism in groups of patients with the complicated course of the disease.
  • (15) Some differences in the thickness of the reparative dentin deposited were noted when teeth were grouped according to the amount of remaining dentin.
  • (16) This shift is thought to parallel the oscillation between unconscious instinctual gratification and conscious attempts at reparation which is the main dynamic feature of the compulsive neurosis in waking life.
  • (17) Bernier and Cahn established the subdivision between the rare central giant cell reparative granuloma and the common peripheral epulis.
  • (18) We also hear that Troika officials have been rather surprised by the latest talk about Greece potentially handing Germany a bill for outstanding war reparations .
  • (19) Secondary syndactyly is the result of mechanical adhesion of adjacent parts involved in a general reparative or healing process.
  • (20) In the reparative stage newly formed vessels in the granulation tissue were observed; In the post-infarction scars sinusoid vascular cavities and arteries of the closing type were noted.