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View synonyms for expiation
expiation
[ ek-spee-ey-shuhn ]
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- expi·ation·al adjective
- nonex·pi·ation noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of expiation1
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Example Sentences
But law is, at best, an imperfect instrument of grief and expiation.
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Even the priests of the false gods, aghast with horror at his crimes, exclaimed, There is no expiation for deeds like these.
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I felt a secret assurance that he was no longer in a place of expiation, though I ceased not to pray for him.
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It was a hard struggle for Luther to give up the ideas of the Middle Ages in reference to self-expiation.
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The church taught that the world was evil, life here an expiation, heaven the soul's true home.
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The poem entitled The Outcast expresses this feeling of mysterious remorse and unending and unavailing expiation.
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