expiation

Example Sentences

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Art uses life to its own ends; it doesn’t offer expiation to its subjects.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2024

Rather, each of these minions is in thrall to the project of keeping the lie alive, complicit in a pathological system of mortification, expiation, and fear that has taken on a life of its own.

From Slate • Sep. 15, 2023

“Until it is returned at least as a symbolic gesture of expiation it will remain evidence of the loot, plunder and misappropriation that colonialism was really all about.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2022

It felt like an expiation, a penance for I don’t quite know what.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 27, 2017

When all were completed and full expiation made for the death of his wife and children, he would seem to have earned ease and tranquillity for the rest of his life.

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