贖罪

しょくざい

Also written ぞくざい, とくざい

Meanings

1. Noun, する verb, Intransitive atonement
2. Noun the Atonement (of Jesus Christ)

Kanji

• 贖 redeem. Read as ショク.
• 罪 crime. Read as ザイ.

Example sentences

• 死刑は重大な犯罪を犯したものに贖罪を果たさせる方法として扱われています。
  The death penalty is used as a method for making those who have committed crimes atone for what they have done.

Words containing 贖罪

• 贖罪意識 (しょくざいいしき) sense of atonement
• 贖罪の日 (しょくざいのひ) Yom Kippur
• 贖罪の羊 (しょくざいのひつじ) sacrificial lamb

And 1 more.

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