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

Such is the story of the bobolink; once spiritual, musical, admired, the joy of the meadows, and the favorite bird of spring; finally, a gross little sensualist, who expiates his sensuality in the larder.

From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes

This is inferred from 1Samuel xxi.-xxii. where Abimelech of Nob provides David with bread on his wanderings, and expiates this offence with his own death and that of the whole race of Eli.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius

And this people, which expiates the crimes of its masters, does not rebel!

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)