- present tense form of expiate (3rd person singular).
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
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
Fourth act—he expiates his crime and sees a chance to regain happiness after a long, weary probation.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
He expiates his crimes, at the close of a capital duel, by the hands of Colonel Morden, a relative of the Harlowe family, who has seen Clarissa die.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by John Rudd
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