All 6 Uses of
expiate
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and expiate not only your own sins but the sins of others.†
Chpt 2 *
- "Well, my opinion is," Smerdyakov began suddenly and unexpectedly in a loud voice, "that if that laudable soldier's exploit was so very great there would have been, to my thinking, no sin in it if he had on such an emergency renounced, so to speak, the name of Christ and his own christening, to save by that same his life, for good deeds, by which, in the course of years to expiate his cowardice."†
Chpt 3
- It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who beat itself on the breast with its little fist and prayed in its stinking outhouse, with its unexpiated tears to 'dear, kind God'!†
Chpt 5unexpiated = not atoned (demonstrated sorrow for a wrong either by doing something good in return for the wrong, or by accepting punishment)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unexpiated means not and reverses the meaning of expiated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- And can you admit the idea that men for whom you are building it would agree to accept their happiness on the foundation of the unexpiated blood of a little victim?†
Chpt 5
- We shall tell them that every sin will be expiated, if it is done with our permission, that we allow them to sin because we love them, and the punishment for these sins we take upon ourselves.†
Chpt 5expiated = atoned (demonstrated sorrow for a wrong either by doing something good in return for the wrong, or by accepting punishment)
- But, being a man of fortitude, he bore his suffering a long time, thinking: "I shall expiate everything by this secret agony."†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(expiate) atone (demonstrate sorrow for a wrong either by doing something good to make up for the wrong, or accepting punishment)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus