Sentence example with the word 'expiate'

expiate

amend, compensate, cover, give and take, live down, make good, make right, pay the forfeit, put right, redeem, repair, satisfy, square things

Definition v. make amends for

Last update: March 7, 2017


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More likely, it helps expiate the guilt of spending two weeks in front of the box.   [verb]

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These officials, at the command of the senate, consulted the Sibylline books in order to discover, not exact predictions of definite future events, but the religious observances necessary to avert extraordinary calamities (pestilence, earthquake) and to expiate prodigies in cases where the national deities were unable, or unwilling, to help. Only the interpretation of the oracle which was considered suitable to the emergency was made known to the public, not the oracle itself.   [verb]

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"I have much to expiate, and fighting brings enjoyment."   [verb]

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It will expiate at Gods tribunal.   [verb]

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But the impious king bitterly expiated his sacrilegious conduct.   [verb]

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(I don't quite recollect the tale) who was sent, after death, to the warm regions, there to expiate his many sins of omission.   [verb]

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I will myself take him where he can expiate his crimes.   [Please select]

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One crime alone is theirs to expiate: the crime of poverty.   [Please select]

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"Not in the least: you might expiate your enjoyment of them by founding a hospital."   [Please select]

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Men could not live, if they felt they could not expiate their sins.   [Please select]

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He would expiate his offense in God's good time.   [Please select]

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