expiate

The Sisters have come a long way, but never strayed from their mission: to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt.

I keep it and rear it rather on the Roman Catholic principle of expiating numerous sins, great or small, by one good work.

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.

Middle-class white students expiating their guilt over the death of Martin Luther King—that was how many viewed the demonstrations.

In this airbrushed history, America expiated its original sin of slavery with the massive bloodletting that was our Civil War.