- present tense form of expiate (3rd person singular).
expiates
Example Sentences
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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
Which crime, accordingly, Turgenef expiates with one month's imprisonment in the dungeon, and two years' banishment to his estates.
From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Panin, Ivan
There she expiates her wrong-doing by a life of devotion and expresses the utmost affection for me.
From Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Balzac, Honoré de
But in Purgatory, perhaps, where one suffers, where one expiates the weaknesses of the heart, the doubts of the soul, the half-inclinations to evil.
From Purgatory by Sadlier, Mrs. James
