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expiation

[ ek-spee-ey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act of expiating.
  2. the means by which atonement or reparation is made.


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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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  • ²Ô´Ç²Ôe³æ·±è¾±Â·²¹î€ƒt¾±´Ç²Ô noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of expiation1

1375–1425; late Middle English expiacioun < Latin ±ð³æ±è¾±Äå³Ù¾±Å²Ô- (stem of ±ð³æ±è¾±Äå³Ù¾±Å ) atonement, satisfaction. See expiate, -ion
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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.

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Art uses life to its own ends; it doesn’t offer expiation to its subjects.

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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.

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“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€

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“White on White†appears to target the way some white people find comfort in rituals of performative expiation.

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