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Definition of Atoned
1. atone [v] - See also: atone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atoned
Literary usage of Atoned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"... debt that the twenty thousand marks with which the Londoners atoned for their
insults had to be sent abroad for her creditors' satisfaction. ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Deficiencies, easily detected, are all atoned for by direct insight, which some
would not hesitate to call genius. The books upon which Mrs. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Atticus in some measure atoned for his ambition and the irregularity of his
promotion by his zeal in the cause of orthodoxy. ..."
4. America and Her Problems by George A. Raper (1915)
"Injustice to be confirmed or atoned for. Americans have faith. — 6. RELIGION :
Is it dying out or becoming modernized ? Competition in well-doing. ..."
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