- present tense form of expiate (3rd person singular).
expiates
Example Sentences
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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
He expiates his crimes, at the close of a capital duel, by the hands of Colonel Morden, a relative of the Harlowe family, who has seen Clarissa die.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by John Rudd
Fourth act—he expiates his crime and sees a chance to regain happiness after a long, weary probation.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
One takes up one's life and expiates its errors, each after one's several fashion—and my way is not Lorimer's.
From The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons by Arthur Symons
