Both Uses of
expiate
in
The House of Mirth
- Not in the least: you might expiate your enjoyment of them by founding a hospital.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- The topmost shelf of every closet was made to yield up its secret, cellar and coal-bin were probed to their darkest depths and, as a final stage in the lustral rites, the entire house was swathed in penitential white and deluged with expiatory soapsuds.†
Chpt 1.9
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)