All 6 Uses of
atone
in
Brave New World
- "A good beginning for a Solidarity Service," thought Bernard miserably, and foresaw for himself yet another failure to achieve atonement.
p. 79..9 *atonement = making up for wrongs
- And all at once a great synthetic bass boomed out the words which announced the approaching atonement and final consummation of solidarity, the coming of the Twelve-in-One, the incarnation of the Greater Being.
p. 84..8atonement = process of fixing or making up for wrongs
- Separate and unatoned, while the others were being fused into the Greater Being; alone even in Morgana's embrace–much more alone, indeed, more hopelessly himself than he had ever been in his life before.
p. 86..4unatoned = not having made up for wrongsstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unatoned means not and reverses the meaning of atoned. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- They were all crying together; and, intoxicated by the noise, the unanimity, the sense of rhythmical atonement, they might, it seemed, have gone on for hours-almost indefinitely.
p. 256..9atonement = making up for wrongs
- Drawn by the fascination of the horror of pain and, from within, impelled by that habit of cooperation, that desire for unanimity and atonement, which their conditioning had so ineradicably implanted in them, they began to mime the frenzy of his gestures, striking at one another as the Savage struck at his own rebellious flesh, or at that plump incarnation of turpitude writhing in the heather at his feet.
p. 258..5
- The description of last night's orgy of atonement had been in all the papers.
p. 259..3
Definition:
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(atone) to fix or make up for a wrong -- especially a sin (even if nothing can be done to make up for the wrong other than to show regret)