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Definition
atone (demonstrate sorrow for a wrong either by doing something good to make up for the wrong, or accepting punishment)
- I keep it and rear it rather on the Roman Catholic principle of expiating numerous sins, great or small, by one good work.Chapter 14 (**% in)
- It will expiate at God's tribunal.Chapter 23 (89% in)
There are no more uses of "expiate" in Jane Eyre.
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