expiation
Example Sentences
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Between excruciatingly suspenseful set pieces, the themes of sin, guilt and expiation get an oblique workout.
From New York Times
Working on the new constitution “felt like expiation,” he said.
From Washington Post
History records some of these ugly episodes being interspersed with exercises in a staged national expiation of guilt — as was on display in Tulsa.
From Washington Post
He later returned repeatedly to the hotel where George had died — a “private ritual of expiation.”
From Washington Post
I wonder if this is some sort of expiation, given all the disinformation that News Corp has spewed.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
