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She knows she can't expiate her sins, but hopes to heal some of the wounds.expiate = make up for (do enough good to make up for the wrongs)
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I don't see myself--or you either-- offering ourselves up to expiate her crimes.† (source)
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Suffer and expiate your sin by it, that's what you must do.† (source)
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But, in order to expiate the sin of avarice, which was my undoing, I oblige each passer-by to give me a blow.† (source)
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After a wild youth, he had retired into a convent, there to expiate, at least for some time, the follies of adolescence.† (source)
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I do not wish to expiate, but to live.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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It was a sort of expiation, the only way I could make myself feel like I had paid for the sin of ever having joined the Circle, of having trusted Valentine. (source)expiation = atonement (a way of demonstrating sorrow for a wrong either by doing something good in return for the wrong, or by accepting punishment)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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And when there is also a feeling of guilt to be overcome, and, maybe, expiated, (source)expiated = atoned (paid for either by doing something good in return for a wrong, or by accepting punishment)
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She's on some mission or other — feeding the Third World poor, soothing the dying; expiating the sins of the rest of us.† (source)expiating = atoning (demonstrating sorrow for a wrong either by doing something good in return for the wrong, or by accepting punishment)
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Indeed, when the period was over, she opened her bedroom with a resignation worthy of an expiatory victim and Aureliano Segundo saw the most beautiful woman on earth, with her glorious eyes of a frightened animal and her long, copper-colored hair spread out across the pillow.† (source)
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He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates.† (source)expiates = atones (demonstrates sorrow for a wrong either by doing something good in return for the wrong, or by accepting punishment)
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And can you admit the idea that men for whom you are building it would agree to accept their happiness on the foundation of the unexpiated blood of a little victim?† (source)unexpiated = not atoned (demonstrated sorrow for a wrong either by doing something good in return for the wrong, or by accepting punishment)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unexpiated means not and reverses the meaning of expiated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Doubt not but that sin Will reign among them, as of thee begot; And therefore was law given them, to evince Their natural pravity, by stirring up Sin against law to fight: that when they see Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak, The blood of bulls and goats, they may conclude Some blood more precious must be paid for Man; Just for unjust; that, in such righteousness To them by faith imputed, they may find Justification towards God, and peace Of conscience; which the law by ceremonies Cannot appease; nor Man the mortal part Perform; and, not performing, cannot live.† (source)
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Two years earlier, a Quaker professor ... driven, apparently, by deep urges for expiation and reconciliation, had come to Hiroshima, assembled a team of carpenters, and, with his own hands and theirs, begun building a series of Japanese-style houses for victims of the bomb; (source)expiation = the desire to do something good to try to make up for a wrong
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I may not have the convenience of the Roman confession to expiate my sins so as to go forth and sin again despite my belief, but I do believe.† (source)
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