expiates
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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
How bitterly the unfortunate sovereign expiates her former triumphs!
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron
This is inferred from 1Samuel xxi.-xxii. where Abimelech of Nob provides David with bread on his wanderings, and expiates this offence with his own death and that of the whole race of Eli.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
The daughter expiates her foolish love in a convent.
From The Puppet Crown by MacGrath, Harold
