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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The Abbé de St. Yves was expiating the wrongs he had done his sister at her feet, and she pardoned him.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
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 James Stalker
He was now no longer young, and was expiating by severe sufferings the dissoluteness of his youth: but age and disease had made no essential change in his character and manners.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
When Louis spoke of Raoul, she could scarcely conceal her emotion; her maternal heart yearned toward the innocent child who was expiating his mother's faults.
From File No. 113 by Émile Gaboriau
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 Amelia Ruth Gere Mason
