All 5 Uses of
expiate
in
Light in August
- To what I done and what I suffered to expiate it, what you done and are womansuffering ain't no more than a handful of rotten dirt.†
Chpt 6 *
- They were not the man's; he had heard McEachern drive away in the buggy, departing in the twilight to drive three miles and to a church which was not Presbyterian, to serve the expiation which he had set himself for the morning.†
Chpt 7expiation = atonement (a way of demonstrating sorrow for a wrong either by doing something good in return for the wrong, or by accepting punishment)
- She began to talk about a child, as though instinct had warned her that now was the time when she must either justify or expiate.†
Chpt 12
- Expiation of ...†
Chpt 12expiation = atonement (a way of demonstrating sorrow for a wrong either by doing something good in return for the wrong, or by accepting punishment)
- The mind and the heart purged then, if it is ever to be; the week and its whatever disasters finished and summed and expiated by the stern and formal fury of the morning service; the next week and its whatever disasters not yet born, the heart quiet now for a little while beneath the cool soft blowing of faith and hope.†
Chpt 16expiated = atoned (demonstrated sorrow for a wrong either by doing something good in return for the wrong, or by accepting punishment)
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