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expiate

[ek-spee-eyt] / ˈɛk spiˌeɪt /


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For what should I Be contrite? for my father's sin, already Expiate with what we all have undergone, And to be more than expiated by120 The ages prophesied, upon our seed.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

And will he die to Expiate those very Injuries?

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

Expiate, eks′pi-āt, v.t. to make complete atonement for: to make satisfaction or reparation for.—p.adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various




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