- present tense form of expiate (3rd person singular).
expiates
Example Sentences
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This belief teaches that each man is bound to an endless series of reincarnated lives, in each of which he expiates the sins accumulated in the life before.
From Time Magazine Archive
At long last sister Anne expiates her negligence by dying.
From Time Magazine Archive
If he could only believe that the blood of the Lamb of God expiates all this crime which is so appalling to his mind, he would be at peace instantaneously.
From Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd
As respects the constitution of man, they make a distinction between the soul and the vital principle, asserting that it is the latter only which expiates sin by transmigration.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
One takes up one's life and expiates its errors, each after one's several fashion—and my way is not Lorimer's.
From The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons by Arthur Symons
