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Definition of Atonable
1. a. Admitting an atonement; capable of being atoned for; expiable.
Definition of Atonable
1. Adjective. Capable of being atoned for. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Atonable
1. atone [adj] - See also: atone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atonable
Literary usage of Atonable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of England by Frederick York Powell, Thomas Frederick Tout (1908)
"The Irish law made murder atonable by a money payment, and neither law nor
tradition did anything to bring about a better state of things. ..."
2. The Continental Legal History Series by Association of American Law Schools (1916)
"... all acts for which is incurred a fine payable to public authority ; the third,
such breaches of right as are not atonable with money payments. ..."
3. A History of Continental Criminal Law by Ludwig von Bar (1916)
"... and usually only where the crime was notorious; but for crimes not atonable
by fine, especially when notorious, public prosecution was the regular mode. ..."
4. Principles and Methods of Municipal Administration by William Bennett Munro (1916)
"In those days nearly all offences were atonable by fine (bot or wergild).
The Anglo- Saxon conception of police administration was thus both simple and ..."
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