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attone

attone is the obsolete form of atone.

Meaning of atone

Verb

atone (third-person singular simple present atones, present participle atoning, simple past and past participle atoned)

  1. (ambitransitive) To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency.
    • He tried to atone for his mistakes by working harder.
  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.

Forms of attone

third-person singular presentattones
present participleattoning
past participleattoned
pastattoned

Questions about attone

What is attone the obsolete form of?
Attone is the obsolete form of atone.

Words near attone in the dictionary

  1. attomole
  2. attomoles
  3. attoms
  4. Atton
  5. attonce
  6. attone
  7. attoned
  8. attonement
  9. attonements
  10. attones
  11. attoning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: attone (page history and authors); atone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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