- 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
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 Julius Wellhausen
At the last moment Major Pitcairn meets his death, and thus expiates as far as possible his bloody orders at Lexington.
From Ten Great Events in History by James Johonnot
Yet there is a pensive and humble air about Lady Bassett, which shows she still expiates her fault, though she knows it will always be ignored by him for whose sake she sinned.
From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade
