- 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
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 Mrs. James Sadlier
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 Ivan Panin
And this people, which expiates the crimes of its masters, does not rebel!
From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
