expiation
Example Sentences
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Rather, each of these minions is in thrall to the project of keeping the lie alive, complicit in a pathological system of mortification, expiation, and fear that has taken on a life of its own.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2023
“Until it is returned at least as a symbolic gesture of expiation it will remain evidence of the loot, plunder and misappropriation that colonialism was really all about.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2022
“White on White” appears to target the way some white people find comfort in rituals of performative expiation.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2022
It felt like an expiation, a penance for I don’t quite know what.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017
When all were completed and full expiation made for the death of his wife and children, he would seem to have earned ease and tranquillity for the rest of his life.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Vocabulary lists containing expiation
The Scarlet Letter
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Oedipus the King
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A Tale of Two Cities
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