All 7 Uses of
atone
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- She had atoned for everything, by the sacrifice she had made of her life.†
Chpt 8 *
- Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees, as Lord Henry remarked once, in a discussion on the subject; and there is possibly a good deal to be said for his view.†
Chpt 11
- …that to her great disappointment no one would ever believe anything against her; Mrs. Erlynne, a pushing nobody, with a delightful lisp, and Venetian-red hair; Lady Alice Chapman, his hostess's daughter, a dowdy dull girl, with one of those characteristic British faces, that, once seen, are never remembered; and her husband, a red-cheeked, white-whiskered creature who, like so many of his class, was under the impression that inordinate joviality can atone for an entire lack of ideas.†
Chpt 15
- He atones for being occasionally somewhat over-dressed, by being always absolutely over-educated.†
Chpt 15
- What could atone for that?†
Chpt 16
- Ah! for that there was no atonement; but though forgiveness was impossible, forgetfulness was possible still, and he was determined to forget, to stamp the thing out, to crush it as one would crush the adder that had stung one.†
Chpt 16
- Yet it was his duty to confess, to suffer public shame, and to make public atonement.†
Chpt 20
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)