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expiate
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synonyms: aby, assoil ???
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Definition:1. (transitive or intransitive) To atone or make reparation for.2. (transitive) To make amends or pay the penalty for.3. (transitive, obsolete) To relieve or cleanse of guilt.4. (transitive) To purify with sacred rites.5. (transitive) To wind up, bring to an end.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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"for mercy's sake, think of the children; they are not to blame! I am to blame, and punish me, make me expiate my fault. Anything I can do, I am ready to do anything!
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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I keep it and rear it rather on the Roman Catholic principle of expiating numerous sins, great or small, by one good work.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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I had the power, if I could raise myself to will it, and yet again had not the power, for the weight of twenty Atlantics was upon me, or the oppression of inexpiable guilt. “Deeper than ever plummet sounded,” I lay inactive.
Thomas De Quincey. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)
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As a young man I was attracted to expiation.
Hermann Hesse. Siddhartha (Translated by Hilda Rosner), p.96 (1951)
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Three months ago, Michael realized, he probably would have volunteered, proving something foolish, expiating something profound.
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.629 (1948)
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