HOW TO PRONOUNCE
expiate
/ˈɛk.spi.eɪt/
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What does expiate mean?
verb
- To atone or make reparation for.
- To make amends or pay the penalty for.
- To purify with sacred rites.
More meanings (2)
verb
- To wind up, bring to an end.
- (obsolete) To relieve or cleanse of guilt.
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Or did she seek to expiate her guilt by assisting her husband in the punishment of her seducer?
To have done more hurt to a man, than he can, or is willing to expiate, enclineth the doer to hate the sufferer.
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Be that as it may, if our good senator was a political sinner, he was in a fair way to expiate it by his night’s penance.
In one spot there was a settlement of juvenile convicts—children—who had been sent thither from their home and their friends on the other side of the globe to expiate their “crimes.”
To expiate his huntsman’s offense, Ilágin pressed the Rostóvs to come to an upland of his about a mile away which he usually kept for himself and which, he said, swarmed with hares.