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Atone v. t.

To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease. (Obs.) "I would do much To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio."

To unite in making. (Obs. & R.) "The four elements... have atoned A noble league."

To make satisfaction for; to expiate. "Or each atone his guilty love with life."

Atone v. i. (past & past part. atoned; pres. part. atoning)

To agree; to be in accordance; to accord. (Obs.) "He and Aufidius can no more atone Than violentest contrariety."

To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime. "The murderer fell, and blood atoned for blood." "The ministry not atoning for their former conduct by any wise or popular measure."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... as the worship of the images of saints. My sister will come and live with me henceforth. You see what she loses. All her life has been spent in caring for my mother, and seventeen years after that, my father. You may be sure she does not rave and rend hair like people who have plenty to atone for in the past; but she loses very much. I returned to London last night. . ...

— Life and Letters of Robert Browning • Mrs. Sutherland Orr

... lost to me for ever, that you will not be mine, and I must choose the paths you point out to me. No, sir; that is impossible! You cannot cast me off, now that I love you! I have sinned against you, caused you insufferable pains, infinite tortures; but my whole life shall be given to atone for those sins by meek submission, dutiful obedience, ardent love. I cannot choose between those paths you have shown me. I do not want to be consumed by the fires of sinful love, nor to freeze in the ice of solitude and self-abnegation. I want to be happy, and to make you happy. I want to love, ...

— Dr. Dumany's Wife • Mr Jkai

... which are thus associated with the death-bed of George the Fourth. It is something to know that the King's brother, the Duke of Clarence, whom that death-bed had made King of England, was kind and generous to Mrs. Fitzherbert, and did all in his power to atone to her for the trials which her love and her royal lover had brought ...

— A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4) • Justin McCarthy and Justin Huntly McCarthy

... motion. Among other things, he declared that, though he still thought the Rohilla war unjustifiable, he considered the services which Hastings had subsequently rendered to the state as sufficient to atone even for so great an offence. Pitt did not speak, but voted with Dundas; and Hastings was absolved by a hundred and ...

— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... also, are intent upon self-expression. The little masterpieces of Abraham Cahan are an earnest of what the Ghetto can achieve, and whether the Jews are faithful to Yiddish, or, like Cahan, acquire the language of their adopted country, there is no reason why they should not atone in a free land for centuries of silence. To enumerate the manifold achievements of the States is impossible. One example will suffice, and no city will better suit my purpose than Chicago. That admirable literature should ...

— American Sketches - 1908 • Charles Whibley

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