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
I will expiate my fault in having forgotten this for a moment by going to the miserable cottage of my parents.
From Undine by Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett
Yes, it is true, I have sinned; yes I have led you all into ruin for a girl's sake, and I will expiate it through all eternity.
From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Wilhelmine von Hillern
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
O true believers, if ye fear GOD, he will grant you a distinction, and will expiate your sins from you, and will forgive you; for GOD is endued with great liberality.
From The Koran (Al-Qur'an) by George Sale
