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expiable

ADJECTIVE
  1. capable of being atoned for

How To Use expiable In A Sentence

  • Now, it required no conjurer to foresee, that should Francis commit this inexpiable crime of secretly allying himself with a Saint Ronan's Well
  • Camerino had come on first; in an access of jealous fury the Count had struck Camerino in the face; and this outrage, I know not how justly, was deemed expiable before the other. The Diary of a Man of Fifty
  • Jewess was deemed a sin, scarce expiable; and Isabel conceived all that horror of her son's offence which was natural in a pious mother and a haughty queen. Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Complete
  • They play a fundamental role in the capacity of colonizers to invent a rationale for their inexpiable barbarity.
  • The desperate squeakings about the old house on windy nights that to Anthony were burglars with revolvers ready in hand represented to Gloria the auras, evil and restive, of dead generations, expiating the inexpiable upon the ancient and romantic hearth. The Beautiful and Damned
  • Blackpool attempted to rally, but again a series of inexpiable officiating decisions again saw an avalanche of penalties against the visitors.
  • Whom of your followers have I ever injured that you thus rage with inexpiable hatred against me?
  • Thousands of soldiers sweep toward the Mediterranean coast leaving behind their dead and their dreams, to wander in the Anatolian desert under a seemingly inexpiable curse.
  • And first, he reproves their ingratitude, because, when they had been so kindly received, they made the worst possible return; next, he contends that the crime was inexpiable, because they had stolen what was most valuable to him; namely, the cup in which he was accustomed both to drink and to divine. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
  • I had the power, if I could raise myself to will it, and yet again had not the power, for the weight of twenty Atlantics was upon me, or the oppression of inexpiable guilt. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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