Rectified, with "for"

Usage examples of atoned.

I answered, "I have been guilty only through ignorance, and if you would be so good as to call for me at my hotel to-morrow morning, before the evening I shall have atoned for my error, and you will no longer have the right to address me the same reproach" The son of the prebendal commissary called for me, and I found in his father a most eccentric, whimsical sort of man.

And in this manner I atoned for all I had done, for, far from deceiving the worthy man, I became his benefactor by guarding against the deceit of some cheat who would have cared for his money more than for his daughter.

Your husband might have pardoned a youthful fault atoned for by twenty years of irreproachable conduct.

Why should he punish a fault committed so many years ago, and atoned for by twenty years of devotion and suffering?

Yesterday I had atoned for my guilt, even though it was only by the pangs of conscience.

Nothing had turned out well, nothing was atoned for, nothing forgotten.

Had the synod of Rimini carried this point, such practical merit might have atoned for some speculative heresies.

The Samaritans were finally subdued by the regular forces of the East: twenty thousand were slain, twenty thousand were sold by the Arabs to the infidels of Persia and India, and the remains of that unhappy nation atoned for the crime of treason by the sin of hypocrisy.

To-night, however, he prayed that he might live just long enough to welcome back Muriel Graham's son with his honour redeemed and his great fault atoned.

If once he heard that the fault which broke her engagement to Harry Feversham had been most bravely atoned, there could be no doubt as to the course which he would insist upon pursuing.

She treasured the feather because it was no longer a symbol of cowardice but a symbol of cowardice atoned.

He will be very glad that Harry has atoned his disgrace, but he will never understand why he incurred it.

When you have done all he tells you, you will have atoned for your own and the robber's sins.

When all three have taken root and from these charred stumps apple-trees have sprung you will know how to destroy evil in men, and will have atoned for all your sins.

But if the bulgy roundness of his person and the shortness of his legs in any way detracted from his personal importance, these trifling defects were, he was well aware, more than atoned for by the peculiar dignity of his countenance.