Expiation
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- To atone or make reparation for.
- 1888, Leo XIII, "Quod Anniversarius",
- Thus those pious souls who expiate the remainder of their sins amidst such tortures will receive a special and opportune consolation, Template:...
- 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, Chapter VI,
- I am going out to expiate a great wrong, Paul. A very necessary feature of the expiation is the marksmanship of my opponent.
- 1888, Leo XIII, "Quod Anniversarius",
- To make amends or pay the penalty for.
- 1876, Jules Verne, translated by Stephen W. White, The Mysterious Island, part 2, chapter 17,
- He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed.
- 1876, Jules Verne, translated by Stephen W. White, The Mysterious Island, part 2, chapter 17,
- To relieve or cleanse of guilt.
- 1829, Pierre Henri Larcher, Larcher's Notes on Herodotus, vol. 2, p. 195,
- Template:... and Epimenides was brought from Crete to expiate the city.
- 1829, Pierre Henri Larcher, Larcher's Notes on Herodotus, vol. 2, p. 195,
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