expiation

Example Sentences

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Expiation and consolation come when, after years spent in America, Joachim returns to Germany, settles down to be a fisherman.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sterner images of Sorrow are wanted here—looking out through burning eyes for the Expiation to come.

From Towards the Goal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Again the whole multitude prostrated themselves on the moor—and the Pastor, bending over the dead bodies, said, "This is Expiation!"

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

To his mind, and to the mediaeval mind generally, this outer kingdom, with its wards of Despair, Expiation, and Beatitude, was as real as the Holy Roman Empire itself.

From The Unseen World and Other Essays by Fiske, John

Expiation, or atonement, was no longer accomplished by the exact performance of certain ceremonies pleasing to the gods and required by a sacred code like a penalty for damages, but by privation and personal suffering.

From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Cumont, Franz