What does expiate mean?

Definitions for expiate
ˈɛk spiˌeɪtex·pi·ate

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. expiate, aby, abye, atoneverb

    make amends for

    "expiate one's sins"

Wiktionary

  1. expiateverb

    To atone or make reparation for.

  2. expiateverb

    To make amends or pay the penalty for.

  3. expiateverb

    To relieve or cleanse of guilt.

  4. Etymology: From expiatum, past participle of expio.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To EXPIATEverb

    Etymology: expio, Latin.

    Strong and able petty felons, in true penitence, implore permission to expiate their crimes by their assiduous labours in so innocent and so hopeful a work. Francis Bacon, Phys. Remarks.

    The odium which some men’s rigour or remissness had contracted upon my government, I resolved to expiate by regulations. Charles I .

    For the cure of this disease an humble, serious, hearty repentance is the only physick; not to expiate the guilt of it, but to qualify us to partake of the benefit of Christ’s attonement. John Ray, on the Creation.

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  1. expiate

    To expiate is to atone or make amends for a wrongdoing, guilt, or sin. It often involves performing an action to redress the negative effects of the wrongdoing and to gain forgiveness.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Expiateverb

    to extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin

  2. Expiateverb

    to purify with sacred rites

  3. Expiateadjective

    terminated

  4. Etymology: [L. expiatus,p. p]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Expiate

    eks′pi-āt, v.t. to make complete atonement for: to make satisfaction or reparation for.—p.adj. (Shak.) expired.—adj. Ex′piable, capable of being expiated, atoned for, or done away.—ns. Expiā′tion, act of expiating or atoning for: the means by which atonement is made: atonement; Ex′piātor, one who expiates.—adj. Ex′piātory, having the power to make expiation or atonement. [L. expiāre, -ātumex, inten., piāre, to appease, atone for.]

Editors Contribution

  1. expiate

    to make up for a sin, make good. 罪の償いをするin Japanese.

    You must expiate the sins you have committed by offering prayers to god.


    Submitted by anonymous on March 29, 2019  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of expiate in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of expiate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of expiate in a Sentence

  1. May Sarton:

    A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

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