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Agone vs Atone - What's the difference?

agone | atone |

As an adverb agone

is .

As a verb atone is

to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime or a sin one has committed.

agone

English

Adverb

(-)
  • * Bible, 1 Sam. xxx. 13
    • Three days agone I fell sick.
  • * 1663 ,
  • *:And many a serpent of fell kind, / With wings before, and stings behind, / Subdued; as poets say, long agone , / Bold Sir George, Saint George did the dragon.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    atone

    English

    Verb

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

    • Synonyms

    * (to make reparation) expiate, propitiate

    Derived terms

    () * atonable * atoneable * atonement * atoner

    Anagrams

    * * English words prefixed with at- ----