expiate
verb (used with object)
to atone for; make amends or reparation for.
have expiated
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present perfectof expiate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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And when Letty Fletcher had effaced her transgression by dint of heroism and devotion, she said, not, “I have expiated my sin,” but, “I have conquered.”
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Augustin Filon
You think it impossible that you could ever commit so heinous an offence; but so thought Fauntleroy once; so have thought many besides him, who at last have expiated as he hath done.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various
I have given proofs of my repentance; I have expiated my sins.'
From Mauprat by Stanley Young
No, I was a criminal; but oh, how I have expiated my sin!
From Joseph II. and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
I have told you my whole story, Paul, that you may know not alone how black my deception was, but how bitterly I have expiated it.
From Miss Ludington's Sister by Edward Bellamy
