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expiation
[ ek-spee-ey-shuhn ]
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±ð³æp¾±Â·²¹î€ƒt¾±´Ç²Ô·²¹±ô adjective
- ²Ô´Ç²Ôe³æ·±è¾±Â·²¹î€ƒt¾±´Ç²Ô noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of expiation1
Example Sentences
But “Runaway Train†the book is not some weepy expiation for past sins, a Hollywood reclamation job designed to kick-start a once-buzzy career.
Art uses life to its own ends; it doesn’t offer expiation to its subjects.
The sisters’ mission statement is “the expiation of stigmatic guilt and the promulgation of universal joy,†but since their inception, they’ve been called diabolical and anti-Catholic and accused by their detractors of mocking Catholic nuns.
“Until it is returned at least as a symbolic gesture of expiation it will remain evidence of the loot, plunder and misappropriation that colonialism was really all about.â€
“White on White†appears to target the way some white people find comfort in rituals of performative expiation.
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