expiation
3
9.3
- noun
- /ˌɛkspiˈeɪʃən/
- Formal
:
expiación
- The community held a ceremony of expiation to make amends for past injustices.
- expiation of a sin
Examples
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The sins are social, the penitence must be social, and social must the expiation be.
Academic text (2017) -
If his goal was expiation, it could not have been a serious one.
Academic text (2012) -
The text does not suggest that expiation always has this effect.
Academic text (2008) -
The expiation I offer is my testament; the responsibility I meet is my testimony.
Academic text (1991) -
Judaism sees death as expiation or atonement.
Academic text (2002) -
It calls for expiation.
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The saying of a Requiem Mass for the murdered man, for which the priest will take no money, is the partial expiation of a sin that he intuits but does not fully understand.
Academic text (1993) -
He sought expiation for his wrongdoings by volunteering at the local shelter.
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In her quest for expiation, she donated to charities and helped those in need.
Synonyms
27
7.4
A feeling of deep regret and an action to show you are sorry
25
7.5
A way to make things right after doing something wrong
24
3.9
Something given or done that makes a person feel their complaint is solved
19
6.8
Giving money or help to make up for a wrong
1
9.9
An action or gift to please someone after doing wrong, often to calm a god
Actions or money given to make up for harm someone caused
How Complete
- Specialized
119
7.4
- Formal
3
9.3
25
7.5
19
6.8
671
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Expiation comes from Latin parts ex- 'out' and pius, which you can see in the English word pious 'religious'. It originally meant getting the bad 'out' and making things right, so expiation now means doing something to make amends for a wrong.