expiate

He wanted to expiate “an immense weight of guilt” and determined to “submerge myself, to get right down among the oppressed, to be one of them and on their side against their tyrants.”

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2020

You repeat a trauma continually, until you expiate it.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2019

Titch wants to expiate the misdeeds of his childhood, and seeks the approval of his remote, inconstant father.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018

She helps him expiate his guilt by contextualizing it in the story of his people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2017

He also seemed to be trying to do something more than expiate guilt.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

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

By bearing the sin of the world Christ expiates it, and thus takes it away.

From Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

Thus, and these are extreme afflictions, this hapless wight expiates, and her expiation is brought upon her by her grandeur.

From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo

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

The promise is that our guilt can be expiated by making money.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2017

Generally, there is—much later—a period of national reckoning when the sins of the moment of crisis are both expiated and forgiven.

From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2015

Before Milly had nearly gone this painful round, her sin was thoroughly expiated.

From Time Magazine Archive

But such peccadilloes were later more than expiated.

From Time Magazine Archive

This freedom is really a grave burden of guilt; and can only be expiated by great actions.

From Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Farouk eventually settles in Ireland, and his narrative is braided with the stories of two other shattered men there: Lampy, young and lovelorn, and John, frantically expiating for a life of violence.

From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2018

If John Edwards had been as truthful and forthcoming about his personal misdeeds, he might not be as much of a pariah as he remains even after expiating for his sins in Haiti.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2010

This method of reckoning indulgences is based on the Early Christian custom of expiating sins with public-penance which often lasted days and even years.

From Time Magazine Archive

He spent a large part of his life expiating one unfortunate deed after another and never rebelling against the almost impossible demands made upon him.

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

Is it when expiating the shame of a falsehood that I should call upon men to accept me as truthful?

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever