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expiation
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Expiation
(gcide) | Expiation \Ex`pi*a"tion\, n. [L. expiatio: cf.F. expiation]
1. The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime
or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or
penalty.
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His liberality seemed to have something in it of
self-abasement and expiation. --W. Irving.
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2. The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or
sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an
atonement.
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Those shadowy expiations weak,
The blood of bulls and goats. --Milton.
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3. An act by which the threats of prodigies were averted
among the ancient heathen. [Obs.] --Hayward.
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expiation
(wn) | expiation
n 1: compensation for a wrong; "we were unable to get
satisfaction from the local store" [syn: atonement,
expiation, satisfaction]
2: the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially
appeasing a deity) [syn: expiation, atonement,
propitiation] |
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