atone

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  1. intransitive verb To make amends, as for a sin or fault: These crimes must be atoned for.
  2. intransitive verb Archaic To agree.
  3. transitive verb To expiate.
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  • It advised passersby to atone, although around here folks show little in the way of serious transgression. —  F ;SF - vol 099 issue 03 - September 2000
  • To atone is to be at one-to stop drawing a circle that includes our tribe and excludes the other, and start drawing a larger circle that takes everyone in. selise January 1st, 2009 at 7: 39 am this will happen unless someone else strikes at israel. —  Firedoglake
  • Supposedly this temple tour is to atone -- or make merit -- for past sins. —  Dealbreaker
  • But to atone, and earn our award, we've written over six thousand posts that had at least a bit of linguistics. —  Language Log
  • Publicly, PC-racism has become an entire hall of mirrors, everyone pointing publicly at racism that has become increasingly imaginary, and whites too often believing each other guilty merely because decent people are supposed to believe that and atone, atone, atone. —  Armed and Dangerous
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  1. Middle English atonen, to be reconciled, from at one, in agreement : at, at; see at1 + one, one; see one.

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  1. Middle English, also attone, earlier atoon, aton, at one, at on, literally at one, agreed. In modern use written as two words, at one: see at and one. In at-one, as in al-one and on-ly, one preserves its proper pronunciation (ōn), the usual pronunciation (wun) being a modern (16th century) corruption, which has not affected the compounds.
  2. from atone, adv., q. v.
 

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