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Redemption vs Atone - What's the difference?

redemption | atone |

As a noun redemption

is (religious): redemption; salvation.

As a verb atone is

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

redemption

Noun

  • the act of redeeming or something redeemed
  • the recovery, for a fee, of a pawned article
  • salvation from sin
  • rescue upon payment of a ransom
  • Derived terms

    * beyond redemption * past redemption * redemption fatigue * redemption price * redemption value

    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