Thesaurus: expiation

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1. n. The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty.
2. n. The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement.
3. n. An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen.
4. n. compensation for a wrong
5. n. the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)
6. 1. The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty. His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation. W. Irving. 2. The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement. Those shadowy expiations weak, The blood of bulls and goats. Milton. 3. An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. [Obs.] Hayward.
7. n:100 n. the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)