All 3 Uses of
expiate
in
The Age of Innocence
- "I don't see myself—or you either—offering ourselves up to expiate her crimes."†
Chpt 10 *
- The steam-yacht, built in the Clyde, and fitted with tiled bath-rooms and other unheard-of luxuries, was said to have cost him half a million; and the pearl necklace which he had presented to his wife on his return was as magnificent as such expiatory offerings are apt to be.†
Chpt 21
- It seemed to him so natural—however tragic—that money ill-gotten should be cruelly expiated, that his mind, hardly lingering over Mrs. Beaufort's doom, wandered back to closer questions.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(expiate) atone (demonstrate sorrow for a wrong either by doing something good to make up for the wrong, or accepting punishment)