1. Not atoned for or expiated. Also with for.
(a) 1727. Thomson, Britannia, 60. And his guilty stores, Won by the rayage of a butcher’d world, Yet unatton’d, sunk in the swallowing deep.
1771. Mrs. 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!
1811. Scott, Don Roderick, II. xlix. Nor unatoned, where freedom’s foes prevail, Remain’d their savage waste.
1837. Lytton, Athens, II. 7. Time past on, the injury was unatoned, the remembrance remained.
(b) 1753. Richardson, Grandison (1781), V. x. 50. I acquainted her with his former fault, unatoned for as it was.
1856. Lever, Martins of Cro’ M., 279. The great fact remained unatoned for—his family, his own connexions, ‘had done nothing for him.’
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U.S., III. i. 316. They cherished a deep sense of the wrongs unatoned for and unavenged.
† 2. Unreconciled. Obs.–1
1730. T. Boston, View Covt. Grace (1734), 167. That Spirit they could not have from an unattoned God.
