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expiate
(redirected from expiations)

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ex·pi·ate  (ksp-t)
v. ex·pi·at·ed, ex·pi·at·ing, ex·pi·ates
v.tr.
To make amends or reparation for; atone: expiate one's sins by acts of penance.
v.intr.
To make amends; atone.
[Latin expire, expit- : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + pire, to atone (from pius, devout).]
expi·ator n.
expiate [ˈɛkspɪˌeɪt]
vb
(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) (tr) to atone for or redress (sin or wrongdoing); make amends for
[from Latin expiāre, from pius dutiful; see pious]
expiator  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.expiateexpiate - make amends for; "expiate one's sins"
aby, abye, atone
redress, right, correct, compensate - make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
expiate
verb (Formal) make amends for, redeem, redress, atone for, do penance for repentant sinners seeking to expiate their wrongdoing
Translations
expiate [ˈekspɪeɪt] VT → expiar
expiate [ˈɛkspieɪt] vt [+ sin, guilt] → expier
expiate
vt → sühnen
expiate [ˈɛkspɪˌeɪt] vt (fam) → espiare
expiate [ˈɛkspɪˌeɪt] vt (fam) → espiare


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The confessional--the architectural seed of this polarity--is a cage to which the teller of expiations is temporarily and voluntarily affixed, in order to be free to engage in the commerce of atonement at an agreed-upon rate of exchange.
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The Bloodguard enact their linear expiations on a substrate of primordial Haruchai culture whose relationship to time is cyclic and "archaic" in Eliade's terms.
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