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
Thus, and these are extreme afflictions, this hapless wight expiates, and her expiation is brought upon her by her grandeur.
From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo
Fourth act—he expiates his crime and sees a chance to regain happiness after a long, weary probation.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
But in Purgatory, perhaps, where one suffers, where one expiates the weaknesses of the heart, the doubts of the soul, the half-inclinations to evil.
From Purgatory by Mrs. James Sadlier
