expiate

Example Sentences

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When the French king learned what had happened to Horrie, he granted her a full pardon, requiring only that she go on pilgrimage to expiate her sin.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2022

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

She helps him expiate his guilt by contextualizing it in the story of his people.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2017

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