- present tense form of expiate (3rd person singular).
expiates
Example Sentences
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This belief teaches that each man is bound to an endless series of reincarnated lives, in each of which he expiates the sins accumulated in the life before.
From Time Magazine Archive
At long last sister Anne expiates her negligence by dying.
From Time Magazine Archive
If he could only believe that the blood of the Lamb of God expiates all this crime which is so appalling to his mind, he would be at peace instantaneously.
From Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd
Such is the story of the bobolink; once spiritual, musical, admired, the joy of the meadows, and the favorite bird of spring; finally, a gross little sensualist, who expiates his sensuality in the larder.
From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
He expiates his crimes, at the close of a capital duel, by the hands of Colonel Morden, a relative of the Harlowe family, who has seen Clarissa die.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by John Rudd
