Associations to the word «Atone»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

ATONE, verb. Make amends for; "expiate one's sins".
ATONE, verb. Turn away from sin or do penitence.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope