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

As respects the constitution of man, they make a distinction between the soul and the vital principle, asserting that it is the latter only which expiates sin by transmigration.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

If he could only believe that the blood of the Lamb of God expiates all this crime which is so appalling to his mind, he would be at peace instantaneously.

From Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd

How bitterly the unfortunate sovereign expiates her former triumphs!

From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand

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

But such peccadilloes were later more than expiated.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The sublimity, however, with which she expiated to the uttermost those thoughtless follies of her youth, enables us to pardon her as woman, though as queen, we must recognize that her fate was inevitable.

From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Elizabeth S. Kite

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

I immediately quitted Germany for the purpose of travelling, with the intent, if possible, of expiating my guilt; and this self-imposed task I shall continue while I live.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 by Eugène Sue