Definition of atone Atone

/ʌtowˈn/ - [utown] - a•tone

We found 12 definitions of atone from 5 different sources.

What does atone mean?

Verb
atone - make amends for; "expiate one's sins"
		expiate, aby, abye
		redress, right, compensate, correct regain an upright or proper position; "The capsized boat righted again"
atone - turn away from sin or do penitence
		repent

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atone (Verb)
To make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime or a sin one has committed.
atone (Verb)
To clear someone else of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.

atone (v. i.)
To agree; to be in accordance; to accord.
atone (v. i.)
To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime.
atone (v. t.)
To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease.
atone (v. t.)
To unite in making.
atone (v. t.)
To make satisfaction for; to expiate.

atone
at-ōn′, adv. (Spens.) at one, at once, together. [M.E. also attone, earlier atoon, aton, at one, at on.]
atone
at-ōn′, v.i. to give satisfaction or make reparation (with for): to make up for deficiencies: (Shak.) to agree, be in accordance.—v.t. to appease, to expiate: (arch.) harmonise, or reconcile.—ns. Atone′ment, the act of atoning; reconciliation: expiation: reparation: esp. (theol.) the reconciliation of God and man by means of the incarnation and death of Christ; Aton′er.—adv. Aton′ingly. [See Atone, above.]

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