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Expiation
Expiation Ex`pi*a"tion, n. [L. expiatio: cf.F. expiation]
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.
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