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expiation
/ɛkspiˈeɪʃən/
noun 2
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2ADJ.
beyond
VERB + EXPIATION
parched
Definitions
noun
1
An act of atonement for a sin or wrongdoing.
One day he came not: I was told, and truly, that business the most imperative required his personal attendance; yet I could not force the ghastly terror of his illness from my mind. I dared not tempt my fate by content—the agony which I suffered seemed a sort of expiation.
Under this plea, felons of the worst kind might claim, till this time, to be taken out of the hands of the law judges, and to be tried at the bishops’ tribunals; and at these tribunals, such a monstrous solecism had Catholicism become, the payment of money was ever welcomed as the ready expiation of crime.
2
The act of expiating or stripping off.
expiation of his immanities fore.
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Synonyms
noun — the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasi
- atonement
- propitiation
noun — compensation for a wrong
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One day he came not: I was told, and truly, that business the most imperative required his personal attendance; yet I could not force the ghastly terror of his illness from my mind. I dared not tempt
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Under this plea, felons of the worst kind might claim, till this time, to be taken out of the hands of the law judges, and to be tried at the bishops’ tribunals; and at these tribunals, such a monstro
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And see far off below you, where the gulf is fixed, / Your persecutors, in timeless torment, / Parched passion, beyond expiation.
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