Atone Definition

ə-tōn
atoned, atones, atoning
verb
atoned, atones, atoning
To make amends, as for a sin or fault.
These crimes must be atoned for.
American Heritage
To make amends or reparation (for a wrongdoing, a wrongdoer, etc.)
Webster's New World
To make amends for; expiate.
Webster's New World
To agree.
American Heritage
To be in agreement.
Webster's New World

Origin of Atone

  • From atone (“reconciled”), from Middle English atone, attone, atoon (“agreed”, literally “at one”), equivalent to at +‎ one.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English atonen to be reconciled from at one in agreement at at at one one one

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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