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Definition of expiate in English: expiateverb ˈɛkspɪeɪtˈɛkspiˌeɪt [with object]Make amends or reparation for (guilt or wrongdoing) their sins must be expiated by sacrifice 他们的罪过必须用供奉的方式来抵偿。 Example sentencesExamples - It is absurd to indict a whole people or to banish a whole people to some historical purgatory where they can expiate their sins.
- He bears all patiently, and at the end of that period an angel tells him that his sins are expiated and he is restored to his family and possessions.
- Abby and Scott sublimate their guilt while Buddy tries to expiate his through a material gift.
- For three centuries inhabitants of the Sertao have relied on pilgrimages to sacred sites, deep into this inhospitable land, to expiate their sins, acquire amulets, and simply exchange news.
- Am I expiating the crime of slighting my father so much?
- This is promoted by a system of rituals which reinvoke and celebrate the original passions of the primal crime, designed to expiate feelings of guilt.
- If we follow the ascetic method of punishing ourselves in order to expiate our ‘sins,’ we will never have the chance to understand our minds properly.
- King Lear is a metaphorical description of one man's journey through hell in order to expiate his sin.
- He is to be sacrificed to ensure the sins of the settlement are expiated.
- His perjury has now been completely expiated, and is very unlikely to recur.
- This matters less than that the injury be expiated and honour restored.
- This is not simply the story of a gentle, deluded old man whose attempts to expiate his guilt were poorly judged.
- In speaking of criminal justice it states that the punishment should be ‘proportionate to the gravity of the offense’ and that it may avail to expiate the guilt of the offender.
- Like a zealot who demands a public flagellation to expiate his sin, Martin's thirst for punishment grows until his mental health is in doubt.
- Founded exactly 25 years ago, this group of ostentatious do-gooders vow ‘to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt’.
- ‘I'm clear in my mind about the need to expiate our collective guilt as a society,’ said the party leader.
- The professor sees in his pupil a chance to expiate past sins.
- I agree with you David, and I think this is the way that he deals with his problems, and in fact the way he expiates his guilt.
- If you got involved in some crime and you had to expiate your sins, you didn't go to the local courts, you went to the local priest and you made an appropriate offering.
- No penance would ever expiate the sin against free government,’ he said, ‘of holding that a President can escape control of executive powers by law through assuming his military role.’
Synonyms atone for, make amends for, make up for, do penance for, pay for, redress, redeem, offset, square, make good, make redress for, make reparation for, make recompense for, make restitution for, purge
Derivativesadjective ˈɛkspɪəb(ə)lˈɛkspiəb(ə)l noun ˈɛkspɪeɪtəˈɛkspiˌeɪdər He accepts the idea that he is to be the expiator for the damage done by mercantile capitalism.
adjective ˌɛkspɪˈeɪt(ə)riˈɛkspɪət(ə)riˈɛkspiəˌtɔri In an expiatory sacrifice the blood which is shed is regarded as wiping out a transgression. Example sentencesExamples - He died in his forties in a sanitarium, unvisited by Eugene, who, twenty years later, wrote this expiatory play.
- The souls of the dead are led before him and he reminds them that they themselves are the authors of their fate and are alone responsible for the expiatory punishment they are about to undergo.
- Accordingly, he sees storytelling festivals as large expiatory and redemptory rituals of an almost religious kind.
- Any expiatory rite is focused on the human predicament - on the problem of sin or cultic impurity.
OriginLate 16th century (in the sense 'end (rage, sorrow, etc.) by suffering it to the full'): from Latin expiat- 'appeased by sacrifice', from the verb expiare, from ex- 'out' + piare (from pius 'pious'). Definition of expiate in US English: expiateverbˈekspēˌātˈɛkspiˌeɪt [with object]Atone for (guilt or sin) 赎（罪）；抵（罪）；抵偿，补偿 their sins must be expiated by sacrifice 他们的罪过必须用供奉的方式来抵偿。 Example sentencesExamples - This matters less than that the injury be expiated and honour restored.
- He bears all patiently, and at the end of that period an angel tells him that his sins are expiated and he is restored to his family and possessions.
- Founded exactly 25 years ago, this group of ostentatious do-gooders vow ‘to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt’.
- No penance would ever expiate the sin against free government,’ he said, ‘of holding that a President can escape control of executive powers by law through assuming his military role.’
- The professor sees in his pupil a chance to expiate past sins.
- His perjury has now been completely expiated, and is very unlikely to recur.
- If you got involved in some crime and you had to expiate your sins, you didn't go to the local courts, you went to the local priest and you made an appropriate offering.
- King Lear is a metaphorical description of one man's journey through hell in order to expiate his sin.
- In speaking of criminal justice it states that the punishment should be ‘proportionate to the gravity of the offense’ and that it may avail to expiate the guilt of the offender.
- This is not simply the story of a gentle, deluded old man whose attempts to expiate his guilt were poorly judged.
- Abby and Scott sublimate their guilt while Buddy tries to expiate his through a material gift.
- For three centuries inhabitants of the Sertao have relied on pilgrimages to sacred sites, deep into this inhospitable land, to expiate their sins, acquire amulets, and simply exchange news.
- He is to be sacrificed to ensure the sins of the settlement are expiated.
- ‘I'm clear in my mind about the need to expiate our collective guilt as a society,’ said the party leader.
- It is absurd to indict a whole people or to banish a whole people to some historical purgatory where they can expiate their sins.
- This is promoted by a system of rituals which reinvoke and celebrate the original passions of the primal crime, designed to expiate feelings of guilt.
- If we follow the ascetic method of punishing ourselves in order to expiate our ‘sins,’ we will never have the chance to understand our minds properly.
- I agree with you David, and I think this is the way that he deals with his problems, and in fact the way he expiates his guilt.
- Like a zealot who demands a public flagellation to expiate his sin, Martin's thirst for punishment grows until his mental health is in doubt.
- Am I expiating the crime of slighting my father so much?
Synonyms atone for, make amends for, make up for, do penance for, pay for, redress, redeem, offset, square, make good, make redress for, make reparation for, make recompense for, make restitution for, purge
OriginLate 16th century (in the sense ‘end (rage, sorrow, etc.) by suffering it to the full’): from Latin expiat- ‘appeased by sacrifice’, from the verb expiare, from ex- ‘out’ + piare (from pius ‘pious’). |