at one

See also: atone

English

Prepositional phrase

at one

  1. (often with with) In harmony or unity.
    She felt perfectly at one with nature during her retreat to the lake.
  2. (often with with) In agreement, unanimous, of the same opinion.
    • 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 326:
      The pastoral deity to whom they paid their devotions was Pales, as to whose sex the ancients themselves were not at one.
    • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 245:
      Vidal's old antagonist Norman Mailer was largely at one with him on this, jauntily alleging that endless war was the only way to vindicate the drooping virility of the traditional white American male.
  3. (archaic) Into a state of harmony, friendship or reconciliation.

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