expiation

How To Use expiation In A Sentence

• He submits as the substitute for sinners who cannot possibly atone for their own sins; that is, he submits to the expiation (wiping clean) of that sin and the propitiation (appeasing satisfaction) of God's justified anger.
• The attempted assassination was an act both of expiation and of restitution.
• The Fast of Atonement was instituted in expiation of a mortal sin and observed as a day of penance and mourning.
• And how shall I make expiation that you may bless the inheritance of Jehovah?
• Even supposing that punishment may effectively protect us in the future, we consider that it must be, in the first place, an expiation of the past.
• And it is this current state of affairs that allows and indeed vitalizes a penal code that calls for ever more executions to be carried out by the state in expiation of such defiling acts that pollute the sacred public domain.
• It is a title I must earn for myself, in expiation for the evil done by others. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
• The ritual impurity of a sin also can have social consequences such as stigma or ostracism, which is likewise removed though expiation. Archive 2008-02-01
• Some modern students of the Bible don’t like the term propitiation because they say it implies pagan notions about fickle gods who need humoring and prefer instead the term expiation NRSV. THE NAMES OF JESUS
• The Marble Faun (1860), though set in Rome, dwells on the Puritan themes of sin, isolation, expiation, and salvation.