atone

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

  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.

Έννοιες

εξιλεώνομαι

εξιλεώνω

τιμωρούμαι

εξαγνίζομαι

εξιλέουμαι

εξιλεώ

Συχνότητα

C2
Προφέρεται ως (IPA)
/əˈtəʊn/
Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

From atone (“reconciled”), from Middle English atone, attone, atoon (“agreed”, literally “at one”), equivalent to at + one. Compare Latin adūnō (“I unite, make one”) for the similar formation. Regarding the different phonological development of atone and one, see the note in one.

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