Sentence example with the word 'expiation'

expiation

amends, commutation, compromise, expiatory offering, lex talionis, making right, peace offering, quittance, rectification, reparation, retaliation, squaring

Definition n. compensation for a wrong

Last update: October 18, 2015


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They promised an easy expiation for crimes to both living and dead on payment of a fee, undertook to punish the enemies of their clients, and held out to them the prospect of perpetual banqueting and drinking-bouts in Paradise.   [Please select]

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She will be our expiation.   [Please select]

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Are you afraid of the great expiation before you.   [Please select]

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Implacable resentment was their crime, And grievous has the expiation been.   [Please select]

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He felt it part of his expiation to tell her the truth.   [Please select]

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That would be the real expiation, not burying myself in a convent.   [Please select]

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"You've done almost everything," I continued, "that a man can do in expiation of offences."   [Please select]

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His own feet have climbed the mountain of expiation.   [Please select]

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He saw his way, for the first time, to a worthy expiation of his sin.   [Please select]

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He whispered faintly: "O God the Father and God the Holy Ghost, accept this my expiation."   [Please select]

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He owes to individual reason and methodical doubt this expiation of his early essays.   [Please select]

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