Crossword clues for atone
atone
- Synchronized (with)
- Send a note of apology, perhaps
- Seek forgiveness, say
- Salve a guilty conscience
- Priest's advice to a confessor
- More than apologize
- Make recompense
- Fix things
- Brian McKnight "Back ___"
- Set things square
- Salve one's conscience
- Pay (for)
- Make it up to ousted member
- Engage in expiation
- Do more than regret
- Do community service, perhaps
- Beg forgiveness
- When the noon hour ends
- When some people finish lunch
- When "S.N.L." ends on the East Coast
- Supply satisfaction (for)
- Seek redemption
- Say ten Hail Marys, say
- Right things?
- Repair a wrong
- Pay reparations, e.g
- Make things square
- Make good (for)
- Make amends or reparation
- Make amends to wronged member
- Make a full apology
- Expiate (with ''for'')
- A sound
- "___ time or another"
- Work for forgiveness
- When to meet for lunch, maybe
- When some people break for lunch
- When penitents come back from lunch?
- When most NFL games start
- When many workers return to the office
- When many return from lunch
- When "the mouse ran down"
- What some repenters do
- Try to make up for an offense
- Trader Horne "Velvet to ___"
- The devout do it on Yom Kippur
- Terence Trent D'Arby "Wishing Well (___ Poem)"
- Take one's medicine, as it were
- Some sinners do it
- Show repentance
- Say prayers
- Say an Act of Contrition
- Right one's wrongs
- Repent for your sins
- Repair wrongs
- Redeem a wrong
- Priest's counsel
- Plead for forgiveness
- Perform community service, perhaps
- Pay reparations (for)
- Pay penalty
- Patch things up
- Of like opinions
- Observe Yom Kippur, in a way
- More than just apologize
- Mark Yom Kippur
- Make up for sins
- Make up for misdeeds
- Make up for a wrong
- Make up for a misdeed
- Make reparations (for)
- Make reparations (1)
- Make expiation
- Make an apology
- Make a slight correction?
- Make a right turn?
- In tune (with)
- In concord
- In accord
- Give reparations
- Fast, perhaps
- Expiate, with 'for'
- Expiate (for)
- Exhibit penitence
- Evangelist's directive
- Do penitence
- Do more than rue
- Do makeup?
- Do as the repentant do
- Do a make-up job
- Correct what's wrong
- Compensate wronged musician
- Compensate for past mistakes
- Cleric's suggestion
- Cleric's counsel
- Buy some flowers for the wife after forgetting date night, say
- Apply a makeup job?
- Apologize with actions
- A pitch
- ___ time (long ago)
- Do penance (for)
- Make up (for)
- Agreeing (with)
- Offset, with "for"
- United (with)
- In accord (with)
- Expiate, with "for"
- Pay the penalty
- "...___ cost to you!"
- Make amends (for)
- Repent for misdeeds
- Observe Yom Kippur, say
- In agreement (with)
- Perform penance
- Compensate (for)
- Make reparations, e.g
- When some people go to bed
- Joined (with)
- One way to deal with sin
- When to return from lunch, maybe
- When many people have lunch
- When the mouse ran down the clock
- Do a make-up job?
- Go to confession
- In total agreement (with)
- ___ time or another
- Answer (for)
- Observe Yom Kippur, e.g.
- Pay for sins
- When many office workers return to work
- When some people eat lunch
- Priest's urging
- Unified
- Make up for, as sins
- Square things?
- Apologize and then some
- In concord (with)
- Even things
- Thing to do on Yom Kippur
- Clear wrongs
- Right wrongs
- Satisfy
- Make right
- Be observant of Lent, say
- Perform peace
- When some people meet for lunch
- Show one's sorry (for)
- Set things straight, in a way
- Request forgiveness for
- Reconciled
- In harmony
- ___ with (agreeing)
- Do repent?
- Right a wrong
- Redeem oneself
- Of the same opinion
- Concurring
- Harmonious
- Mend
- In concurrence
- When penitents convene?
- Accordant
- Like-minded
- Reconcile
- In full agreement
- Agreed
- ___ time (formerly)
- Regret one's sins
- ___ fell swoop
- Advice to a sinner
- Redress a wrong
- Compensate, in a way
- Pay for part of that on expenses
- Pay for a spirit when lunch is taken?
- In agreement to make amends
- The right time to repent?
- Make good for past sins
- Set right
- Be penitent
- In concert
- Set things right
- Make amends for
- Advice to sinners
- Show penitence
- Make restitution
- Make retribution
- Make things right
- Send a note of apology, e.g
- Show regret
- Offer reparation (for)
- Do more than apologize
- Do as the rueful do
- Show remorse
- Do a makeup job?
- Perform penitence
- Make it right
- Words before time or another?
- What Jews do on Yom Kippur
- Turn from sin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Atone \A*tone"\, v. t.
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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.
--Shak. -
To unite in making. [Obs. & R.]
The four elements . . . have atoned A noble league.
--Ford. -
To make satisfaction for; to expiate.
Or each atone his guilty love with life.
--Pope.
Atone \A*tone"\ ([.a]*t[=o]n"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Atoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Atoning.] [From at one,, i. e., to be, or cause to be, at one. See At one.]
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To agree; to be in accordance; to accord. [Obs.]
He and Aufidius can no more atone Than violentest contrariety.
--Shak. -
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.
--Pope.The ministry not atoning for their former conduct by any wise or popular measure.
--Junius.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime or a sin one has committed. 2 (context proscribed English) To clear (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.
WordNet
Usage examples of "atone".
She presented her husband, and begged Count Algarotti to atone for her error towards her god-mother by inviting her to join the wedding repast, an invitation which the countess accepted with great pleasure.
It seemed to me that I had brought dishonour upon Bettina, that I had betrayed the confidence of her family, offended against the sacred laws of hospitality, that I was guilty of a most wicked crime, which I could only atone for by marrying her, in case Bettina could make up her mind to accept for her husband a wretch unworthy of her.
Renaldo, whom he proposed to serve, for the future, with fidelity and affection, thereby endeavouring to atone for the treachery of his former conduct.
Ganga, Ganga, atone for the sins committed during three previous lives.
Father Gerent and perform what penance he requires to atone for your sins.
I thought myself the first man who had alarmed her innocence, and I felt ready to do anything to atone for the insult.
Charles reproached me in a friendly manner because I had not called once upon them, and, in order to atone for my apparent negligence, I went to see them the next day with M.
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.
Know then, Ornulf, that if atonement is to be made for the carrying away of thy foster-daughter, thou, too, must atone for the slaying of Jokul my father, and the seizure of his goods and gear.
They were the product of a theology which taught them their lost estate, offered them for their acceptance a mediatorial and atoning Christ, assured them that through their faith their salvation would be assured, and counselled them to look to their own inner lives for the issue of all this in a distinct sense of spiritual peace and well-being.
I was also influenced by religious motives that suggested to me the necessity of living to atone, by my sufferings and sorrow, for the guilt I had incurred in complying with a savage punctilio, which is, I fear, displeasing in the sight of Heaven.
Rani did not have an opportunity to atone with Rabe, even by making the hollow gesture of handing over the indigo gloves.
This theological fiction was a product of Christianity, anxious to read into the word of God in the Old Testament a prefiguration of the idea contained in Christian soteriology, that Jesus was suffering to atone for the sins of the world.