Expiation

Definitions

1. An act of atonement for a sin or wrongdoing.
   countable, uncountable
2. The act of expiating or stripping off.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“One day he came not: I was told, and truly, that business the most imperative required his personal attendance; yet I could not force⟳ the ghastly terror of his illness from my mind⟳. I dared not tempt my fate by content—the agony which I suffered seemed a sort⟳ of expiation.”

“Under this plea, felons of the worst kind might claim⟳, till this time, to be taken out of the hands of the law judges, and to be tried at the bishops’ tribunals; and at these tribunals, such a monstrous solecism had Catholicism become⟳, the payment of money was ever welcomed as the ready expiation of crime.”

“And see⟳ far off below you, where the gulf is fixed, / Your persecutors, in timeless torment, / Parched passion, beyond expiation.”

“expiation of his immanities fore.”

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