expiation en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ɛkspiˈeɪʃən/
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Etymology
From Middle French expiation, from Latin expiātiō(n) (“satisfaction”).
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) 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.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 193:And see far off below you, where the gulf is fixed, / Your persecutors, in timeless torment, / Parched passion, beyond expiation.
1935, T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, part I: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.
1870, James Anthony Froude, chapter IV, in History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, volume I:
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable) The act of expiating or stripping off.
expiation of his immanities fore.
1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| expiations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Synonyms
expiation · propitiation · piation · indemnification · redress · pillage · compensation · refaction · plunder · propitiation · atonement · atonement · assyth
Translations (33)
uk споку́та (an act of atonement) · nl boetedoening (an act of atonement) · pt expiação (an act of atonement) · tr kefaret (an act of atonement) · fi sovitus (an act of atonement) · eo pentofaro (an act of atonement) · es expiación (an act of atonement) · is yfirbót (an act of atonement) · ru искупле́ние (an act of atonement) · ml പ്രായശ്ചിത്തം (an act of atonement) · ar كَفَّارَة (an act of atonement) · te ప్రాయశ్చిత్తము (an act of atonement) · nl voldoening (an act of atonement) · de Sühne (an act of atonement) · pl ekspiacja (an act of atonement) · ga sásamh (an act of atonement) · zdj kafara (an act of atonement) · uk споку́тування (an act of atonement) · ca expiació (an act of atonement) · sw kafara (an act of atonement) · cs odčinění (hříchu) (an act of atonement) · cs pokání (an act of atonement) · cs napravení (chyb) (an act of atonement) · enm purgacioun (an act of atonement) · hu penitencia (an act of atonement) · is friðþæging (an act of atonement) · de Entsühnung (an act of atonement) · la luella (an act of atonement) · hu vezeklés (an act of atonement) · bg изкупване (an act of atonement) · mk искупу́вање (an act of atonement) · nl verzoening (an act of atonement) · fr expiation (an act of atonement)