atoner

noun

atoner

noun

Etymology From atone + -er.

1

One who atones.

Oh, and the atoner, of whom Thoreau observed in a skeptical essay: “Now, if anything ail a man so that he does not perform his functions ... if he has committed some heinous sin and partially repents, what does he do?2007 September 30, Paul Theroux, “Stanley, I Presume”, in New York Times:

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