expiation
AmericanOther Word Forms
- expiational adjective
- nonexpiation noun
Etymology
Origin of expiation
1375–1425; late Middle English expiacioun < Latin expiātiōn- (stem of expiātiō ) atonement, satisfaction. See expiate, -ion
Example Sentences
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Art uses life to its own ends; it doesn’t offer expiation to its subjects.
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2024
Rather, each of these minions is in thrall to the project of keeping the lie alive, complicit in a pathological system of mortification, expiation, and fear that has taken on a life of its own.
From Slate • Sep. 15, 2023
“Until it is returned at least as a symbolic gesture of expiation it will remain evidence of the loot, plunder and misappropriation that colonialism was really all about.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2022
David Berman became a cult hero singer-songwriter largely because he never said much, making his public expiation all the more startling.
From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2019
When all were completed and full expiation made for the death of his wife and children, he would seem to have earned ease and tranquillity for the rest of his life.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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