Alonest vs Atonest - What's the difference?
alonest | atonest |
(nonstandard) Most alone or isolated.
* 1922 , Elizabeth Frazer, The secret partner?
* 1967 , Piri Thomas, Down these mean streets?
* 2000 , Gerald Nachman, Raised on Radio?
(atone)
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.
As an adjective alonest
is most alone or isolated.As a verb atonest is
archaic second-person singular of atone.alonest
English
Adjective
(-)- The alonest man on the face of the globe! I was stopping in a cheap lodging downtown, in a dreary, drab little cell of a bedroom...
- I was the alonest . I heard the walking of shoes and I looked in the direction of the noise. It was the counterman.
- Crosby declined and, as Winchell walked away, he seemed to Crosby "the alonest man I ever did see."
