Sample Sentences forexpiate (editor-reviewed)
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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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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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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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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)
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And she said, "My daily life is an acknowledgment and expiation of my sin" (source)
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this dear, sainted old man, who had years ago expiated, in his whole manhood's life, the madness of a boys treason? (source)expiated = atoned (demonstrated sorrow for a wrong either by doing something good in return for the wrong, or by accepting punishment)
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"It was an act of expiation," he wrote.† (source)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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It will expiate at God's tribunal.† (source)
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White Memphis life was organized around the churches, and the churches, at any rate most of them, viewed homosexuality as either a sin to be expiated or a disease to be treated.† (source)
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He looks around, laughs embarrassedly, expiating himself.† (source)
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But as society has not the courage to kill them, and, when it catches them, simply wreaks on them some superstitious expiatory rites of torture and degradation, and than lets them loose with heightened qualifications for mischief; it is just as well that they are at large in the Sierra, and in the hands of a chief who looks as if he might possibly, on provocation, order them to be shot.† (source)
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He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates.† (source)
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It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who beat itself on the breast with its little fist and prayed in its stinking outhouse, with its unexpiated tears to 'dear, kind God'!† (source)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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It was not as if I had a choice; more like the dying beauty all about breathed its last breath in me and commanded that I be doomed to play with words the rest of my days, as if in expiation for our race's thoughtless slaughter of its crib world.† (source)
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Blood was always at the root of it, and only blood could expiate it.† (source)
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