expiation

Example Sentences

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“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

“White on White” appears to target the way some white people find comfort in rituals of performative expiation.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2022

History records some of these ugly episodes being interspersed with exercises in a staged national expiation of guilt — as was on display in Tulsa.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2021

Rather, he felt he would find expiation in understanding and giving voice to an oppressed community.

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2020

When all were completed and full expiation made for the death of his wife and children, he would seem to have earned ease and tranquillity for the rest of his life.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton