ə-tōn'
Recompense for grievance or injury:
Deliverance upon payment of ransom; rescue.
The act of reconciling.
The definition of a redress is an action taken to pay back or fix something.
Compensation by a nation defeated in a war for economic losses suffered by the victor or for crimes committed against individuals, payable in money, labor, goods, etc.
Reparation for injury or insult
To add to, delete, correct, revise, or otherwise alter.
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To speak or write in response to:
To satisfy, relieve, or assuage:
To stabilize the purchasing power of (a monetary unit) by changing the gold content in order to counterbalance price variations.
To make harmonious; bring into agreement
(Intransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
To cause to become favorably inclined; win or regain the good will of; appease or conciliate
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To repent is to confess and apologize for your sins, or to feel remorseful about the things you have done wrong.
To provide sufficient explanation to dispel or answer (a doubt or question).
(Archaic) To pay the penalty for
That expiates or is meant to expiate
A means of expiating.
piacular
Requiring atonement or reparation; wicked or sinful.
propitiative
Serving to, or intended to, propitiate; propitiatory, reconciliatory
Of or offered in propitiation; conciliatory.
(Obsolete) Reconciliation; concord.
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The definition of compensation is something of value given in exchange for something else.
(Dated) The act of propitiating; placation, atonement, similar to expiation but with the added concept of appeasement of anger.
To correct is defined as to remove errors or to point out errors.
inexpiable
(Archaic) That cannot be appeased; implacable
once-for-all
Find another word for atone. In this page you can discover 33 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for atone, like: amends, redemption, reconciliation, redress, reparation, satisfaction, amend, answer, appease, compensate and expiate.
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