Expiate
['ekspɪeɪt] or ['ɛkspɪet]
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To purify with sacred rites.
(a.) Terminated.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Atone for, do penance for, make satisfaction or reparation for.
Typed by Anatole
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ATONEMENT]
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Definition
v.t. to make complete atonement for: to make satisfaction or reparation for.—p.adj. (Shak.) expired.—adj. Ex′piable capable of being expiated atoned for or done away.—ns. Expiā′tion act of expiating or atoning for: the means by which atonement is made: atonement; Ex′piātor one who expiates.—adj. Ex′piātory having the power to make expiation or atonement.
Editor: Pasquale
Examples
- For my part, there was only one plan to be pursued; I must expiate my culpable vehemence, or I must not sleep that night. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Will she let me expiate these things? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Not in the least: you might expiate your enjoyment of them by founding a hospital. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- 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. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It will expiate at God's tribunal. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I don't see myself--or you either--offering ourselves up to expiate her crimes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I keep it and rear it rather on the Roman Catholic principle of expiating numerous sins, great or small, by one good work. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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