291: atone Sep 25, 2015

'Atone' derives from the two words, 'at' and 'one', originally denoting unity with G*d. 'At one' doesn't make much sense unless one knows 'one' used to mean 'unite', and 'onement' once meant 'unity'. 'Atonement' was later reinforced by the medieval Latin word 'adunamentum' meaning ‘unity'.