Atones

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a·tone (

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v. a·toned, a·ton·ing, a·tones

v.intr.

1. To make amends, as for a sin or fault: These crimes must be atoned for.

2. Archaic To agree.

v.tr.

1. To expiate.

2. Archaic To conciliate; appease: "So heaven, atoned, shall dying Greece restore" (Alexander Pope).

3. Obsolete To reconcile or harmonize.

[Middle English atonen, to be reconciled, from at one, in agreement : at, at; see at¹ + one, one; see one.]

a·tona·ble, a·tonea·ble adj.

a·toner n.

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