atoning

Betekenis (Engels)

present participle and gerund of atone

atone

1. (ambitransitive) To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To bring at one or at concordance; to reconcile; to suffer appeasement.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To agree or accord; to be in accordance or harmony.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To unite in making.
5. (proscribed) To absolve (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.

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Sinonieme

conciliatory

propitiatory

sacrificial

Vertalings

التّكفير

expiant