expiate
verb (used with object)
to atone for; make amends or reparation for.
were expiating
-
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
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He remarked there abbots and bishops, and even the Emperor Charlemagne, who were expiating their faults by fire, but were to be released from it after a certain time.
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Christmas, Henry
But I found them still more in the miseries, the life-long fatigue, the hard humiliations of penance, because they were expiating my faults.
From Purgatory by Sadlier, Mrs. James
