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Atone vs Transgression - What's the difference?

atone | transgression |

As a verb atone

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

As a noun transgression is

a violation of a law, command or duty.

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

    transgression

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A violation of a law, command or duty
  • An act that goes beyond generally accepted boundaries
  • A relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata