expiate
verb (used with object)
to atone for; make amends or reparation for.
expiates
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present tense formof expiate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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This belief teaches that each man is bound to an endless series of reincarnated lives, in each of which he expiates the sins accumulated in the life before.
From Time Magazine Archive
At long last sister Anne expiates her negligence by dying.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Gaunt fully expiates her error before her trial ends.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various
As respects the constitution of man, they make a distinction between the soul and the vital principle, asserting that it is the latter only which expiates sin by transmigration.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William
If he could only believe that the blood of the Lamb of God expiates all this crime which is so appalling to his mind, he would be at peace instantaneously.
From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)
