expiates
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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
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 Johonnot, James
The soul, in its transmigration, expiates the sins committed in a former state of being.
From Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems by Milman, Henry Hart
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 Draper, John William
