- present tense form of expiate (3rd person singular).
expiates
Example Sentences
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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
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 Honoré de Balzac
The daughter expiates her foolish love in a convent.
From The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath
He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
