How To Use Expiate In A Sentence
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He is to be sacrificed to ensure the sins of the settlement are expiated.
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Aristodemus went home and found himself ostracized, a national villain until he expiated his disgrace by dying a hero at Plataea.
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The disgrace was expiated by a more noble alliance with a princess of China; and the decisive battle which almost extirpated the nation of the Geougen, established in Tartary the new and more powerful empire of the Turks.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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His perjury has now been completely expiated, and is very unlikely to recur.
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Possessing no ecclesiastic franchise, they expiate their grief by posting an InMemoriam notice.
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By depriving them of all their wealth, by chains and immurement in dungeons, by disfiguring them (they may be made to expiate their guilt).
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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It was his way to soothe hurt, or expiate guilt or smooth troubled waters.
PAINT THE WIND
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Palissot, * at sixty years old, was destined to expiate in a prison a satire upon Rousseau, written when he was only twenty, and escaped, not by the interposition of justice, but by the efficacity of a bon mot.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
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He had a chance to confess and expiate his guilt.
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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.
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We have suffered too many disgraces to pass unexpiated.
Angel in the Whirlwind
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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.’
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All sins must be paid for, and those who had not done enough good deeds in life to compensate must suffer pain in purgatory until their sins were expiated
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Never let them feel that their guilt has been expiated.
The Obama Diaries
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I shall expiate my sin of leaving you forlorn in wicked Suez and expunge myself of guilt for ever more.
THE BLACK OPAL
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It is absurd to indict a whole people or to banish a whole people to some historical purgatory where they can expiate their sins.
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He had a chance to confess and expiate his guilt.
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First to atone for the murder still unexpiated, she held above their heads the young of a sow whose dugs yet swelled from the fruit of the womb, and, severing its neck, sprinkled their hands with the blood; and again she made propitiation with other drink offerings, calling on Zeus the
The Argonautica
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Greeks and two Gauls to expiate the gallantries of three vestals.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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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.
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Hebron, is thought to be an act highly acceptable to the Deity, and to expiate many sins, while it entitles the visiter, at the same time, to the pratronage of the Prophet and the Patriarch in heaven: and it is said, that he who recites forty prayers in this mosque, will be delivered from hell-fire and torments after death.
Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred
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‘I'm clear in my mind about the need to expiate our collective guilt as a society,’ said the party leader.
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LIVY mentions it as one of the prodigies which were to be "expiated," on the approach of a rupture with Macedon, that "in
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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expiate one's sins
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However, the forest denizens took over the ceremony and brought the humans to judgment for unexpiated crimes against their own kind.
Wole Soyinka: Africa's Role in the Slave Trade and its Consequences
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It then appeared, from the crucifix, the beads, and the shirt of hair which he wore next his person, that his sense of guilt had induced him to receive the dogmata of a religion, which pretends, by the maceration of the body, to expiate the crimes of the soul.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Deleuze maintains that the father's punishing superego and genital sexuality are symbolically punished in the son, who must expiate his likeness to the father.
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It was his way to soothe hurt, or expiate guilt or smooth troubled waters.
PAINT THE WIND
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After the Revolution of 1688, and on some occasions when the spirit of the Presbyterians had been unusually animated against their opponents, the Episcopal clergymen, who were chiefly non-jurors, were exposed to be mobbed, as we should now say, or rabbled, as the phrase then went, to expiate their political heresies.
The Waverley
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Luther became a doctor of theology and did not yet know that we cannot expiate our sins.
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Abby and Scott sublimate their guilt while Buddy tries to expiate his through a material gift.
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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.
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It is not my design to destroy your immortal soul; or bid you seek the grave, burthened with the weight of sins unexpiated.
The Monk
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It was his way to soothe hurt, or expiate guilt or smooth troubled waters.
PAINT THE WIND
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In remorse, he vowed to live like an animal, crawling on all fours and eating only grass, until his sins were expiated.
Masterful Engravers
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These lady nuns must be of patrician lineage and of fortune enough to defray their expense in the convent, which is of the courtliest origin, for it was founded eight hundred years ago by Alfonso VIII. “to expiate his sins and to gratify his queen,” who probably knew of them.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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The latter's expiate a guilt that was in retrospect vastly exaggerated or nonexistent prolonged the war.
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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.
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We are also aware of sins unexpiated which make us unworthy to be in His presence.
Joyeux Noël !
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This matters less than that the injury be expiated and honour restored.
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I shall expiate my sin of leaving you forlorn in wicked Suez and expunge myself of guilt for ever more.
THE BLACK OPAL
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The professor sees in his pupil a chance to expiate past sins.
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He had a chance to confess and expiate his guilt.
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She could gain her freedom from jail by agreeing to marry her rapist, and thus expiate her "adultery.
David Katz, M.D.: Dignifying Health: Why Not Quite Everything Is Relative
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Regarding the Atonement, he asked: ‘How can the guilt of one man be expiated by the death of another who is sinless - if indeed one may speak of a sinless man at all?’
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Better to leave the crime un-expiated and better remembered.
Estonian Symbolism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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He can be redeemed, he can confess his sins, he can expiate his guilt.
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The Israelis left behind rose-colored Arabic-language leaflets stating that persons from Beit Jalla killed a young Jewish woman near Beit Vaghan after committing against her a crime that will never be expiated.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
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In 1794 the ruffians, Danton and Robespierre, fell in succession, and expiated their crimes (if indeed such crimes be expiable at all) on that guillotine which they had so often deluged with the blood of innocence, even of female innocence and beauty.
Celebration in Baltimore of the Triumph of Liberty in France
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We feel a tinge of guilt that we expiate in this season of giving.
William Grassie: Christmas From The Outside In: A Meditation
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Is the idea of a tense trip homeward, haunted by some unexpiated act, alien to the Bible?
The Muse in the Machine
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This is not simply the story of a gentle, deluded old man whose attempts to expiate his guilt were poorly judged.
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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.
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He hoped to expiate his guilt.
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His grin expiated his looks, making anyone in range of his searchlight smile feel that they were interesting to know.
A Small Death in the Great Glen
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Adventurous young men tried their swords in the East, banished men there sought to recover their fame, the excommunicate strove to win pardon by his sword, or the forgiven to expiate his past crime; and, besides these irregular aids, the two military and monastic orders of Templars and Hospitallers were constantly fed by supplies of young nobles trained to arms and discipline in the numerous commanderies and preceptories scattered throughout the West.
Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
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Although sometimes a particularly serious crime must be expiated, a community cannot excuse itself for existing unless it dissolves and disappears.
Why democracies despise themselves
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The Florentine bishop expiated the offense of playing chess "by three recitations of the Psalter, by washing the feet of 12 poor persons, and by giving them liberal alms.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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LIVY mentions it as one of the prodigies which were to be "expiated" on the approach of a rupture with Macedon, that "in
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
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We have suffered too many Disgraces to pass unexpiated.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 19 August 1777
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We can expiate that sin in this vital mid-term election.
Paula Gordon: Rule AND Ruin
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We are now resolved to expiate each and every deplorable outrage committed against Thee; we are determined to make amends for the manifold offenses against Christian modesty in unbecoming dress and behavior, for all the foul seductions laid to ensnare the feet of the innocent, for the frequent violations of Sundays and holy days, and the shocking blasphemies uttered against Thee and Thy saints.
Feast of the Sacred Heart
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Jew would rather die than labor on the sabbath; the Persian would endure suffocation, before he would blow the fire with his breath; the Indian places supreme perfection in besmearing himself with cow-dung, and pronouncing mysteriously the word Aum; * the Mussulman believes he has expiated everything in washing his head and arms; and disputes, sword in hand, whether the ablution should commence at the elbow, or finger ends; ** the Christian would think himself damned, if he ate flesh instead of milk or butter.
The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature
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This guy and his former boss, Mike Huckabee, wear their religion on their sleeve and use it to expiate guilt and diffuse personal accountability for what they do.
HuckPAC coordinator steps down, citing clemency decision
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Founded exactly 25 years ago, this group of ostentatious do-gooders vow ‘to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt’.
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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.
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King Lear is a metaphorical description of one man's journey through hell in order to expiate his sin.
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He realized the gravity of his action, in killing the Tsar's representative, and, while viewing it as necessary, resolved to "expiate" his crime by taking his own life.
A Finnish Brutus?
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Founded exactly 25 years ago, this group of ostentatious do-gooders vow ‘to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt’.
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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.
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I shall expiate my sin of leaving you forlorn in wicked Suez and expunge myself of guilt for ever more.
THE BLACK OPAL
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I must allow him, notwithstanding his relationship to your lordship, the privileges of a rational person, and either batoon him sufficiently to expiate the violence offered to my person, or else bring it to a matter of mortal arbitrament, as becometh an insulted cavalier. ''
A Legend of Montrose
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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.