expiate

The Sisters have come a long way, but never strayed from their mission: to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

He wanted to expiate “an immense weight of guilt” and determined to “submerge myself, to get right down among the oppressed, to be one of them and on their side against their tyrants.”

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2020

You repeat a trauma continually, until you expiate it.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2019

Titch wants to expiate the misdeeds of his childhood, and seeks the approval of his remote, inconstant father.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018

He also seemed to be trying to do something more than expiate guilt.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

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

The soul, in its transmigration, expiates the sins committed in a former state of being.

From Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems by Milman, Henry Hart

Thus, and these are extreme afflictions, this hapless wight expiates, and her expiation is brought upon her by her grandeur.

From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor

The daughter expiates her foolish love in a convent.

From The Puppet Crown by MacGrath, Harold

The promise is that our guilt can be expiated by making money.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2017

Generally, there is—much later—a period of national reckoning when the sins of the moment of crisis are both expiated and forgiven.

From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2015

In 1932 when I visited Bulgaria I expiated this crime by buying a cartful of peaches and distributing them to a dozen youngsters.

From Time Magazine Archive

But such peccadilloes were later more than expiated.

From Time Magazine Archive

It will be felt that he has amply expiated the political offence of being a Whig Head-Centre, and we trust that an honourable future is in store for him.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 13, 1872 by Various

Farouk eventually settles in Ireland, and his narrative is braided with the stories of two other shattered men there: Lampy, young and lovelorn, and John, frantically expiating for a life of violence.

From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2018

If John Edwards had been as truthful and forthcoming about his personal misdeeds, he might not be as much of a pariah as he remains even after expiating for his sins in Haiti.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2010

This method of reckoning indulgences is based on the Early Christian custom of expiating sins with public-penance which often lasted days and even years.

From Time Magazine Archive

He spent a large part of his life expiating one unfortunate deed after another and never rebelling against the almost impossible demands made upon him.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

M�llner," said the beautiful woman, drawing her breath with effort, "at this moment I am expiating all the sins I have ever committed.

From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Hillern, Wilhelmine von