- present tense form of expiate (3rd person singular).
expiates
Example Sentences
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At long last sister Anne expiates her negligence by dying.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
If one does penance day and night, day and night, for a whole long year, one surely expiates them!
From The Lamp of Fate by Pedler, Margaret
At the last moment Major Pitcairn meets his death, and thus expiates as far as possible his bloody orders at Lexington.
From Ten Great Events in History by Johonnot, James
So he renounces his desires, and expiates the sin of being alive by retirement from the world.
From Musicians of To-Day by Blaiklock, Mary
