- 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
Quoth one of the sages, "The doing of good works expiates evil deeds."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II by John Payne
How bitterly the unfortunate sovereign expiates her former triumphs!
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
The daughter expiates her foolish love in a convent.
From The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath
