expiate
verb (used with object)
to atone for; make amends or reparation for.
will expiate
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future tenseof expiate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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By making her return the love of the person called Charlot, he will expiate her hatred for Chavel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their suffering is my crime, and I will expiate it.
From Thais by Douglas, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
This deceit weighs on my mind, but I will expiate my fault by my charity, though that may be too easy a mode.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 by Sue, Eugène
I will expiate the crime I have committed.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John
I will expiate my fault in having forgotten this for a moment, by returning to the miserable cottage of my parents.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
