expiate
verb (used with object)
to atone for; make amends or reparation for.
was expiating
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past progressiveof expiate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Just about that time she had discovered Maxime's baseness, and was expiating the sins of the past in tears of blood.
From Gobseck by Marriage, Ellen
But she was expiating it in very sackcloth and ashes, and he would add nothing to the burden on her back.
From The Prime Minister by Trollope, Anthony
She went with Mme. de Coulanges to visit Mme. de La Sabliere, who was expiating the errors and follies of her life in austere penitence at the Incurables.
From The Women of the French Salons by Mason, Amelia Ruth Gere
Even on the cross, where He was expiating the sin of the world, He was thinking of the comfort of His widowed mother.
From The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion by Stalker, James
Brother Jacques was expiating the sin of envy.
From The Grey Cloak by Peirce, Thomas Mitchell
