expiate

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

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

In his letter he also quoted a Buddhist text: “Can a new wrong expiate old wrongs?”

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2016

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

At long last sister Anne expiates her negligence by dying.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

So he renounces his desires, and expiates the sin of being alive by retirement from the world.

From Musicians of To-Day by Mary Blaiklock

As respects the constitution of man, they make a distinction between the soul and the vital principle, asserting that it is the latter only which expiates sin by transmigration.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

At the last moment Major Pitcairn meets his death, and thus expiates as far as possible his bloody orders at Lexington.

From Ten Great Events in History by James Johonnot

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

"My hunch," says Mesthene, "is that man may have finally expiated his original sin, and might now aspire to bliss."

From Time Magazine Archive

If friends persuaded him to eat more he expiated by fasting.

From Time Magazine Archive

If it went out, it was judged a very unlucky prognostic, and was to be expiated with infinite ceremonies.

From Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, by Anonymous

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

She was now expiating the early frivolity of her conduct towards him.

From Saint Michael A Romance by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner