expiate
verb (used with object)
to atone for; make amends or reparation for.
had expiated
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past perfectof expiate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In Colonel Grey’s opinion Grit Lawless had expiated his crime.
From Grit Lawless by F.E. Mills Young
And now she proclaimed that he had expiated his offence.
From The Red Planet by William John Locke
He had expiated by his death his theft of her property, but his crime against her mind and soul he could never expiate,--this it was that now branded him with infamy in her memory.
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern
Now they had mounted the steps of the Calvary and known their bitterest agony; the crucified nation had expiated its faults and would be born again.
From The Downfall by E. P. Robins
She would write to Reanda and tell him that she had forgiven him, and had expiated the wrong she had done him.
From Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 by J. André Castaigne
