Expiation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXPIATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of expiating
• the act of making amends or reparation for guilt or wrongdoing; atonement
• act, process, or a means of expiating
• The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty.
• The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement.
• An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen.
• compensation for a wrong
• the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of making atonement

Words related to EXPIATION

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Words that contain EXPIATION

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How to use EXPIATION in a sentence

• His own feet have climbed the mountain of expiation.
• But Ambrose wrote a letter to the emperor, in which he insisted on his repentance and expiation.
• More than the man who had lived out a bitter expiation, did she pity her who had missed the fight, slipped out of the struggle.
• He quite thought that there were future rewards and penalties, but he had too much faith in the goodness of God to suppose that the expiation could be eternal.
• Can you suppose that Jesus Christ requires any such thing as this of you, that you should make a slave of yourself for the expiation of your father? It is a monstrous thought.
• He was willing to save the soul of his victim from the terrible expiation in the next world, to which he had so cheerfully consigned his mortal part in this.
• A great crowd of more than twenty thousand persons, says a contemporary chronicler, rushed to the bridges, the streets, the squares, where this solemn expiation was to take place.
• The sacrifice was intended for the expiation of the armies, and the prosperity of the arms of the people of Rome.
• He that doubteth religion hath no expiation for his offence.
• Its publication is necessary, as an expiation for some of the evil which has been done through my own instrumentality.
• Of the three, the last, mixed up as it was with the murder and its expiation, was the strongest.
• Upon this day shall be the expiation for you, and the cleansing from all your sins.
• Deuteronomy Chapter 21 The expiation of a secret murder.
• He whole soul seemed to crave suffering, in expiation for his sins.
• Stung by the thought of being branded a thief in his native town, he resolved not to return, but in expiation to set out forthwith on a pilgrimage to Rome.
• He assassinated the duke of Orleans, and built this red portal as an expiation for his crime.
• The king, before he entered into action, thought it expedient to perform his expiation at the tomb of Becket.
• The Lupercal was a festival of purification and expiation held in Rome on the 15th of February.
• It is their sweat which is to earn all the expenses of the war, and their blood which is to flow in expiation of the causes of it.
• Her great works of expiation were accordingly continued.
• I just kept that space of my life clear for expiation.
• But that so notorious a murder might be atoned for by some expiation, the father was commanded to make satisfaction for the son at the public charge.
• However, the first introduction of plays, intended as a religious expiation, neither relieved their minds from religious awe, nor their bodies from disease.
• But the beauty of the world had not saved young and tender women, who on such mornings had walked barefoot, none comforting them, to the fiery expiation of their crimes.
• It was taught in these Mysteries, that the soul passes through several states, and that the pains and sorrows of this life are an expiation of prior faults.
• This is the expiation of your oaths, when ye swear inadvertently.
• They believed with the terror of the superstitious in omens and portents, and in rites of expiation and purification to avert the threatened evil.
• But the anger of the gods at this horrible murder led the voyagers in expiation a wearisome way homeward.
• God had appointed water of expiation to be used by the Jews, Numbers XIX.
• How I have suffered in the expiation, Heaven alone knows.
• The main thing was that the formal expiation had been carried out, and the wrath of the spirits averted.
• The Catholic idea of penance or expiation is the moral theme enwrought with the story.
• It is then in the power of the assembly to prescribe some form of expiation.
• Burning at the stake was the common method of expiation.

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