expiates
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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
By bearing the sin of the world Christ expiates it, and thus takes it away.
From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)
Mrs. Gaunt fully expiates her error before her trial ends.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various
Such a man expiates his celebrity by a double bitterness; he is never altogether true, and he is never able to recover the free disposal of himself.
From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
