Word Meanings - ATONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease. I would do much To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio. Shak. 2. To unite in making. The four elements . . . have atoned A noble league. Ford. 3. To

Additional info about word: ATONE

1. To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease. I would do much To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio. Shak. 2. To unite in making. The four elements . . . have atoned A noble league. Ford. 3. To make satisfaction for; to expiate. Or each atone his guilty love with life. Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ATONE)

• Compensate
• Atone
• satisfy
• remunerate
• indemnity
• reimburse
• pay
• requite
• reward
• recompense
• make amends for

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ATONE)

• Punish
• misrequite

Related words: (words related to ATONE)

• REWARDFUL
  Yielding reward.
• PUNISHER
  One who inflicts punishment.
• REIMBURSEMENT
  The act reimbursing. A. Hamilton.
• INDEMNITY
  1. Security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty. Having first obtained a promise of indemnity for the riot they had committed. Sir W. Scott. 2.
• PUNISHABLE
  Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses. That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor. Milton. -- Pun"ish*a*ble*ness,
• RECOMPENSER
  One who recompenses. A thankful recompenser of the benefits received. Foxe.
• RECOMPENSEMENT
  Recompense; requital. Fabyan.
• REWARDLESS
  Having, or affording, no reward.
• ATONES
  Etym: Down he fell atones as a stone. Chaucer.
• REWARD
  To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord. Piers Plowman. Thou hast rewarded
• REIMBURSER
  One who reimburses.
• REWARDABLE
  Worthy of reward. -- Re*ward"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*ward"a*bly, adv.
• PUNISHMENT
  A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention. (more info) 1. The act of punishing. 2. Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person
• ATONER
  One who makes atonement.
• RECOMPENSE
  recompensare, fr.L. pref. re- re- + compensare to compensate. See 1. To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. He can not recompense me better. Shak. 2. To return an equivalent for;
• SATISFYINGLY
  So as to satisfy; satisfactorily.
• REMUNERATE
  To pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, expense, or other sacrifice; to recompense; to requite; as, to remunerate men for labor. Syn. -- To reward; recompense; compensate; satisfy; requite; repay; pay; reimburse. (more info) remunerari;
• SATISFY
  1. To give satisfaction; to afford gratification; to leave nothing to be desire. 2. To make payment or atonement; to atone. Milton.
• REQUITE
  To repay; in a good sense, to recompense; to return (an equivalent) in good; to reward; in a bad sense, to retaliate; to return for evil; to punish. He can requite thee; for he knows the charma That call fame on such gentle acts as these. Milton.
• ATONE
  1. To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease. I would do much To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio. Shak. 2. To unite in making. The four elements . . . have atoned A noble league. Ford. 3. To
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• FIREWARDEN
  An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward.
• SUPERREWARD
  To reward to an excessive degree. Bacon.
• DISSATISFY
  To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite; as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune. The dissatisfied factions of the autocracy. Bancroft.
• DISPUNISHABLE
  Without penal restraint; not punishable. Swift.