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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'

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"Expiate" Quotes from Famous Books

... prosecuted him as a felon, and sent him to penal servitude!" said the count, severely. "But there," he exclaimed, "I will say no more on that subject. As you say, you have suffered enough already to expiate your fault. You have nearly lost your life, and you have quite lost your love; for, of course, you know that your fooling marriage with a minor was no marriage at all, unless her father had chosen to make it so by his recognition. And if ...

— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth

... expiate that," muttered Braschi, gnashing his teeth, as the pope slowly pursued his way. "By the Eternal, the proud Franciscan shall expiate that! Ah, the day will come when he will ...

— The Daughter of an Empress • Louise Muhlbach

... Soissons, and thus got himself into trouble with the Church. Strong as he was, he found the Church too strong for him. The Bishop of Soissons compelled him to agree to pay an annual and perpetual rent to the Abbey, and made him also take the cross and go to the Holy Land to expiate his sacrilege. There he fell in battle. The grandson of this baron, Robert de Coucy, in 1213 granted the people of Pinon 'a right of assize according to the use and custom of Laon,' and the next year founded there a hospital. ...

— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert

... Iarbus, dye to expiate The griefe that tires vpon thine inward soule, Dido I come to thee, aye ...

— The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage • Christopher Marlowe

... life upon the guillotine or the gallows. I was only grieved for Angele who would spend a night and a day, perhaps more, in agonized suspense, knowing nothing of the events which at one great swoop would free her and her beloved mother from the tyranny of a hated brother and send him to expiate his crimes. Not only did I grieve, Sir, for the tender victim of that man's brutality, but I trembled for her safety. I did not know what minions or confederates Fournier-Berty had left in the lonely house yonder, or under what orders they were ...

— Castles in the Air • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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