To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency.
He tried to atone for his mistakes by working harder.
To bring at one or at concordance; to reconcile; to suffer appeasement.
To agree or accord; to be in accordance or harmony.
From atone (“reconciled”), from Middle English atone, attone, atoon (“agreed”, literally “at one”), equivalent to at + one. Compare Latin adūnō (“I unite, make one”) for the similar formation. Regardi...
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