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unaˈtoned, ppl. a.
[un-1 8, 8 c.]
1. Not atoned for or expiated. Also with for.
(a)1727Thomson Britannia 60 And his guilty stores, Won by the ravage of a butcher'd world, Yet unatton'd, sunk in the swallowing deep. 1771E. Griffith Hist. Lady Barton III. 220 There is a hope beyond the grave, and nought but vice, unatoned by penitence and piety, need ever urge despair! 1811Scott Don Roderick ii. xlix, Nor unatoned, where freedom's foes prevail, Remain'd their savage waste. 1837Lytton Athens II. 7 Time past on, the injury was unatoned, the remembrance remained.
(b)1753Richardson Grandison (1781) V. x. 50, I acquainted her with his former fault, unatoned for as it was. 1856Lever Martins of Cro' M. 279 The great fact remained unatoned for—his family, his own connexions, ‘had done nothing for him’. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. III. i. 316 They cherished a deep sense of the wrongs unatoned for and unavenged.
†2. Unreconciled. Obs.—1
1730T. Boston View Covt. Grace (1734) 167 That Spirit they could not have from an unattoned God. |