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Definition of Expiates
1. expiate [v] - See also: expiate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expiates
Literary usage of Expiates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adventures in Swaziland: The Story of a South African Boer by Owen Rowe O'Neil (1921)
"... became rich—A "legal execution" in Swaziland—The unfaithful wife expiates her
sin—How ... expiates ..."
2. Theron and Aspasio: Or, a Series of Dialogues and Letters, Upon the Most by James Hervey (1767)
"Nothing elfe, in any Creature, or in all Worlds, could expiate the leaft Sin.
This, not only expiates all Sin, but gives a Title, ..."
3. A Search for Fortune: The Autobiography of a Younger Son, a Narrative of by Hamilton Lindsay-Bucknall (1878)
"My menagerie—Kitty—The guanaco—Other zoological specimens—The fox expiates his
sins—Anecdote of the puma and the housekeeper—Dr. N. of ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"and expiates it in the present life, though it may be in a way which appears to
him not slight but grievous. " What kind of individual, O priests, ..."
5. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1903)
"Death in a state of penitence also expiates sin (if. ... (f) The only explicit
answer to the question how sacrifice expiates in the Jewish authorities of ..."
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