Atone vs Reconcile - What's the difference?
atone | reconcile |
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.
To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
To make things compatible or consistent.
* Alexander Pope
* John Locke
To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
As verbs the difference between atone and reconcile
is that atone is to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime or a sin one has committed while reconcile is to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.atone
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Verb
(aton)Synonyms
* (to make reparation) expiate, propitiateDerived terms
() * atonable * atoneable * atonement * atonerAnagrams
* * English words prefixed with at- ----reconcile
English
(reconciliation)Verb
(reconcil)- to reconcile people who have quarrelled
- to reconcile differences
- Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, / Considered singly, or beheld too near; / Which, but proportioned to their light or place, / Due distance reconciles to form and grace.
- The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.