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Difference Between Atone and Repent

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Atone

To make amends, as for a sin or fault
These crimes must be atoned for.

Repent

To feel remorse, contrition, or self-reproach for what one has done or failed to do; be contrite
"[He] liked to visit prisoners and admonish them to repent of their ways" (Adam Hochschild).

Atone

(Archaic) To agree.

Repent

To feel such regret for past conduct as to change one's mind regarding it
Repented of intemperate behavior. You'd better accept their offer before they repent.

Atone

To expiate.
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Repent

To become a more moral or religious person as a result of remorse or contrition for one's sins.

Atone

(Archaic) To conciliate; appease
"So heaven, atoned, shall dying Greece restore" (Alexander Pope).

Repent

To feel regret or self-reproach for
Repent one's sins.

Atone

(Obsolete) To reconcile or harmonize.

Repent

(Archaic) To cause (one or oneself) to feel remorse or regret
"And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth" (King James Bible).
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Atone

(ambitransitive) To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency.

Repent

Prostrate or growing along the ground.

Atone

To bring at one or at concordance; to reconcile; to suffer appeasement.

Repent

(intransitive) To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Atone

To agree or accord; to be in accordance or harmony.

Repent

To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.

Atone

To unite in making.

Repent

(transitive) To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.

Atone

(proscribed) To absolve (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.

Repent

(transitive) To be sorry for, to regret.
I repent my sins.

Atone

To agree; to be in accordance; to accord.
He and Aufidius can no more atoneThan violentest contrariety.

Repent

To cause to have sorrow or regret.

Atone

To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime.
The murderer fell, and blood atoned for blood.
The ministry not atoning for their former conduct by any wise or popular measure.

Repent

To cause (oneself) to feel pain or regret.

Atone

To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease.
I would do muchTo atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio.

Repent

Creeping along the ground.

Atone

To unite in making.
The four elements . . . have atonedA noble league.

Repent

Prostrate and rooting; - said of stems.

Atone

To make satisfaction for; to expiate.
Or each atone his guilty love with life.

Repent

Same as Reptant.

Atone

Make amends for;
Expiate one's sins

Repent

To feel pain, sorrow, or regret, for what one has done or omitted to do.
First she relentsWith pity; of that pity then repents.

Atone

Turn away from sin or do penitence

Repent

To change the mind, or the course of conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction.
Lest, peradventure, the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt.

Repent

To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to love and practice sin.
Except ye repent, ye shall likewise perish.

Repent

To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
I do repent it from my very soul.

Repent

To feel regret or sorrow; - used reflexively.
My father has repented him ere now.

Repent

To cause to have sorrow or regret; - used impersonally.

Repent

Turn away from sin or do penitence

Repent

Feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about

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