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/ˈɛkspiˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Expiate v. t. (past & past part. expiated; pres. part. expiating)

To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin. "To expiate his treason, hath naught left." "The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury."

To purify with sacred rites. (Obs.) "Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire."

adjective

Expiate adj. Terminated. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Expiate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Expiate" Quotes from Famous Books

... Rudolph slowly, "to believe in God Almighty, and in His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who suffered on the cross to expiate the ...

— One Snowy Night - Long ago at Oxford • Emily Sarah Holt

... coast say that the fairies are an accursed race who are condemned to walk the earth for a certain space. Some even think them rebellious angels who have been sent to earth for a time to expiate their offences against heaven. For the most part they inhabit the dolmens and the grottos and ...

— Legends & Romances of Brittany • Lewis Spence

... for this offer," answered the duke, "which proves your faithful devotion to me and my interests, but I cannot accept it. That low scoundrel has dared to lay hands upon me, and he must expiate his crime in the most ignominious way. Should he prove to be a gentleman, he will be able to find redress. I never fail to respond, as you know, when there is question of settling a ...

— Captain Fracasse • Theophile Gautier

... wretched story," he began, as if a little careful in the choosing of his words, "but the knowledge of it has deepened instead of lessened my sympathy for you. Your fault has been very great, but so is your sense of compunction; and as far as suffering can expiate, surely you have done much to atone. My own knowledge of the character of the late Lord Hurdly was such that I cannot pretend to be greatly surprised at what you have told me concerning him. I regret to say it, but justice must be done to the living ...

— A Manifest Destiny • Julia Magruder

... Madrid. He was one of the many Spanish writers whose first poetic inspirations were derived from the stirring incidents of the Peninsular War. On the return of King Ferdinand VII., Quintana had to expiate his liberal sentiments by a term of six years in the prison of Pampeluna. The revolution of 1820 brought about his release, but three years later he was banished again from Madrid. An ode on King Ferdinand's ...

— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson

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