expiation🔊

An act of atonement for a sin or wrongdoing.

📑 Synonyms: atonement propitiation

💬 Quotations

One day he came not: I was told, and truly, that business the most imperative required his personal attendance; yet I could not force the ghastly terror of his illness from my mind. I dared not tempt my fate by content—the agony which I suffered seemed a sort of expiation.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara (1834)

(obsolete) The act of expiating or stripping off.

📑 Synonyms: plunder pillage

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