Both Uses of
atone
in
David Copperfield
- I loved her none the less; I thought of her as the same benignant, gentle angel in my life; I reproached myself, not her, with having done him an injury; and I would have made him any atonement if I had known what to make, and how to make it.†
Chpt 28-30 *
- Now has he made atonement to you — with his life!†
Chpt 55-57
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)