expiation

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On the contrary, an aeolian cavern of Southern garrulity is opened up and the air is thick with all the Confederate clich�s about honor, guilt, familial dooms and expiations, the Civil War and slavery.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Roman population, now recruited from many sources, was but reflecting this need unconsciously when it insisted on new emotional rites and expiations.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde

But the ignorance of God's greatness, and men's sinfulness, made the world to fancy some expiations of sin, and satisfactions to God, partly by sacrifices of beasts, partly by prayer, and repentance for sins.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

The sense of guilt was unrelieved by expiations, penances, and prayers.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

These, O king, are the expiations for sinful acts, according to precedent and reason and scriptures and the ordinances.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan