atone
IPA: ʌtˈoʊn
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency.
- (obsolete, transitive) To bring at one or at concordance; to reconcile; to suffer appeasement.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To agree or accord; to be in accordance or harmony.
- (obsolete, transitive) To unite in making.
- (proscribed) To absolve (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.
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Examples of "atone" in Sentences
- The miter denoted atonement for pride.
- Christ made the atonement on the Cross.
- It is like to atone someone to acquit him.
- The atonement is necessary for the rest of us.
- The doctrine of atonement is of heathen origin.
- It was in a Sabbatical Year on the day of Atonement.
- Apparently, he did this to atone for the sin of usury.
- Punishing the inocent Jesus could not atone for the sins of guilty humans.
- Carl is also killed in the crash and Eileen resolves to atone for her sins.
- It leads into the headless heart: the belief that we should 'atone' by charity.
- Hate the sinners who won't atone translates to hate the liberals who won't agree.
- The Devil Wears Prada actress said she did not need to "atone" and justify the swap.
- The original of the word atone, or make atonement, In the Hebrew scripture, carries no such idea of expiation.
- IV. vi.72 (412,4) can no more atone] To _atone_, in the active sense, is to _reconcile_, and is so used by our authour.
- And this, it may be added, is now the ordinary acceptance of the word; to "atone" is to give satisfactlon, or make amends, for an offense or an injury.
- Blunt recently defended her decision to choose big budget blockbusters over independent movies, insisting she did not need to "atone" for her career choices.
- Trying to atone from a broken heart last year at Winged Foot and a left wrist injury he blamed on Oakmont's rough, Mickelson missed the cut for the first time in 31 majors dating to the 1999 British Open at Carnoustie.
- The verb "atone", from the adverbial phrase "at one" (M.E. at oon), at first meant to reconcile, or make "at one"; from this it came to denote the action by which such reconciliation was effected, e.g. satisfaction for all offense or an injury.