Definition of Atone

1. Verb. Make amends for. "Expiate one's sins"

Exact synonyms: Aby, Abye, Expiate
Generic synonyms: Compensate, Correct, Redress, Right
Derivative terms: Atonement, Expiation, Expiation, Expiative, Expiatory

2. Verb. Turn away from sin or do penitence.
Exact synonyms: Repent
Derivative terms: Atonement, Repentant

Definition of Atone

1. v. i. To agree; to be in accordance; to accord.

2. v. t. To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease.

Definition of Atone

1. Verb. To make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime or a sin one has committed. ¹

2. Verb. (proscribed) To clear (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Atone

1. to make amends or reparation [v ATONED, ATONING, ATONES] : ATONABLE [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Atone

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atoms
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atomtronics
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atonalisms
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atonalistic
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atonality
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atone (current term)
atoneable
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atonement
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atonias
atonic
atonic bladder
atonic dyspepsia

Literary usage of Atone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bible Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases in the by William Aldis Wright, Jonathan Eastwood (1884)
"I was glad I did atone my countryman and you. To forget them quite Were to remember that the present need Speaks to atone you. Ant. and Cl. II. 2. 102. ..."

2. The Theology of the Old Testament by Andrew Bruce Davidson, Stewart Dingwell Fordyce Salmond (1904)
"The term ' atone.' The references in the Old Testament are scattered through it, ... (1) The word 'atone' IS3 is not now used in the Kal. In Gen. vi. ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Relation to The reconciliation of this religious and Justification ethical independence of the Christian and atone- with his sense ..."

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