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Both concern marriage attained through unatoned sin, maintained despite suspicion and recrimination, resolved at last by death.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus The Snake Pit, part two of the tetralogy, ends with the master's murder still unconfessed, unatoned; and promises tremendous cumu lative tragedy in the two unwritten volumes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Separate and unatoned, while the others were being fused into the Greater Being; alone even in Morgana’s embrace—much more alone, indeed, more hopelessly himself than he had ever been in his life before.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Helga.—But little you know the mind of my husband, Broddi, if you think he will let his men lie dead by his house and unatoned.

From Sword and crozier, drama in five acts by Hollander, Lee Milton

The misery of the past week, when she had been bearing an unatoned fault, seemed to drop away from her as she listened, and to say, "Life holds sunshine yet."

From Five Little Peppers Midway by Sidney, Margaret