expiation
Example Sentences
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Rather, each of these minions is in thrall to the project of keeping the lie alive, complicit in a pathological system of mortification, expiation, and fear that has taken on a life of its own.
From Slate • Sep. 15, 2023
Enriquez’s writing is “an exploration and expiation of trauma of all kinds,” said Megan McDowell, who translated “Our Share of Night” into English.
From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2023
“Until it is returned at least as a symbolic gesture of expiation it will remain evidence of the loot, plunder and misappropriation that colonialism was really all about.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2022
David Berman became a cult hero singer-songwriter largely because he never said much, making his public expiation all the more startling.
From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2019
As a young man I was attracted to expiation.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing expiation
The Scarlet Letter
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A Tale of Two Cities
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