All 3 Uses of
expiate
in
Selected Essays
- Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade.†
Chpt 3.expiation = atonement (a way of demonstrating sorrow for a wrong either by doing something good in return for the wrong, or by accepting punishment)
- I do not wish to expiate, but to live.†
Chpt 3. *
- Unhappily, almost no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.†
Chpt 5.expiation = atonement (a way of demonstrating sorrow for a wrong either by doing something good in return for the wrong, or by accepting punishment)
Definition:
atone (demonstrate sorrow for a wrong either by doing something good to make up for the wrong, or accepting punishment)