Expiate
verb
To do something as a way to show that you are sorry about doing something wrong.
He donated generously to the charity to expiate his guilt for not helping earlier.
Often appears as...
- expiate a sin
- expiate guilt
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Formal
verb
To remove the sin or guilt by suffering or penalty.
Many cultures believe in rituals to expiate the sins of their ancestors.
Often appears as...
- expiate a sin
- expiate through penance
Usage tips
Formal
Religious
verb
To do something as a way to show that you are sorry about doing something wrong.
He donated generously to the charity to expiate his guilt for not helping earlier.
Often appears as...
- expiate a sin
- expiate guilt
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To remove the sin or guilt by suffering or penalty.
Many cultures believe in rituals to expiate the sins of their ancestors.
Often appears as...
- expiate a sin
- expiate through penance
Usage tips
Formal
Religious
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Sincere Regret
Use 'expiate' to express sincere remorse or regret over one's misdoings or negligence.
After realizing the impact of his words, he sought to expiate his harsh remarks with a heartfelt apology.
Pro Tip 2/3Active Redemption
'Expiate' involves an active effort to seek forgiveness or make amends, not just feeling sorry.
She volunteered every weekend to expiate her lack of involvement in the community.
Pro Tip 3/3Remedy Wrongdoing
'Expiate' suggests a concrete action or sacrifice to compensate for wrongdoing.
The CEO cut his own salary to expiate the company's environmental damages.
Pro Tip 1/3Sincere Regret
Use 'expiate' to express sincere remorse or regret over one's misdoings or negligence.
After realizing the impact of his words, he sought to expiate his harsh remarks with a heartfelt apology.
Pro Tip 2/3Active Redemption
'Expiate' involves an active effort to seek forgiveness or make amends, not just feeling sorry.
She volunteered every weekend to expiate her lack of involvement in the community.
Pro Tip 3/3Remedy Wrongdoing
'Expiate' suggests a concrete action or sacrifice to compensate for wrongdoing.
The CEO cut his own salary to expiate the company's environmental damages.
Pro Tip 1/3Sincere Regret
Use 'expiate' to express sincere remorse or regret over one's misdoings or negligence.
After realizing the impact of his words, he sought to expiate his harsh remarks with a heartfelt apology.
Pro Tip 2/3Active Redemption
'Expiate' involves an active effort to seek forgiveness or make amends, not just feeling sorry.
She volunteered every weekend to expiate her lack of involvement in the community.
Pro Tip 3/3Remedy Wrongdoing
'Expiate' suggests a concrete action or sacrifice to compensate for wrongdoing.
The CEO cut his own salary to expiate the company's environmental damages.
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Quote examples
Max Weber
German Economist
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.
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Bertha von Suttner
Austrian Novelist
How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of the idea of obliterating ink stains with ink, or spots of oil with oil. Only blood must be washed out with blood.
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Adam Clarke
British Theologian
But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
English Poet
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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Louis XIV
French Royalty
That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.
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Max Weber
German Economist
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.
Quote examples
Bertha von Suttner
Austrian Novelist
How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of the idea of obliterating ink stains with ink, or spots of oil with oil. Only blood must be washed out with blood.
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Adam Clarke
British Theologian
But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
Quote examples
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English Poet
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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Louis XIV
French Royalty
That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.
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