expiate
verb (used with object)
to atone for; make amends or reparation for.
unexpiated
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a word derived from
expiate.
Example Sentences
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With the same savvy agitprop that gained the civil rights movement its leverage to transform American society, the Klarsfelds kept shaming German and French authorities with their unexpiated wartime sins.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2012
His mind was a police sheet, or rather like a page of that celebrated "Livre Noir," wherein all the unexpiated offences of a nation are registered.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
What had she to do with merriment and jollity, while a sin remained unexpiated, or a moment of her father's suffering and sorrow could be anticipated?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various
In showing mercy to her, you do so to me, your father; who, when you read this, will have been for years among the dead, though the evil that he caused may still remain unexpiated.
From Olive A Novel by G. Bowers
What sin, unexpiated in this land Of groans, hath guided so severe a hand?
From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Sir John Denham
