- present tense form of expiate (3rd person singular).
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
Thus, and these are extreme afflictions, this hapless wight expiates, and her expiation is brought upon her by her grandeur.
From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo
She expiates on its make and its merits, in professional language, and with a volubility that makes Edith's head swim.
From A Terrible Secret by May Agnes Fleming
By bearing the sin of the world Christ expiates it, and thus takes it away.
From Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows
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