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Atoned vs Atoner - What's the difference?

atoned | atoner |

As a verb atoned

is past tense of atone.

As a noun atoner is

one who atones.

atoned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (atone)

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    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

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    atoner

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who atones.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 30, author=Paul Theroux, title=Stanley, I Presume, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Oh, and the atoner , of whom Thoreau observed in a skeptical essay: “Now, if anything ail a man so that he does not perform his functions ... if he has committed some heinous sin and partially repents, what does he do? }}

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