atone

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[edit] English

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From at one.

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Infinitive
to atone

Third person singular
atones

Simple past
atoned

Past participle
atoned

Present participle
atoning

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

  1. To make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime one has committed.
  2. (proscribed) To clear (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.

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  • For what reason are the English words one and once pronounced so, while other words derived from one, like alone, only and atone, pronounced with a long o? Stressed vowels often became diphthongs over time (Latin bona → Italian buona and Spanish buena). A similar thing happened in the late Middle Ages to the English words one and once, first recorded circa 1400. The vowel sound underwent some changes, such as the pronunciation (from ōn → ōōōn → wōn → wōōn → wŏŏn → wŭn).

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[edit] French

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atone (epicene, plural atones)

  1. expressionless
  2. Template:linguistic unstressed
  3. Template:linguistic mute

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atone f.

  1. Feminine plural form of atono

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