Definition of Expiations. Meaning of Expiations. Synonyms of Expiations

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Definition of Expiations

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.

Meaning of Expiations from wikipedia

- Yom Kippur (/ˌjɒm kɪˈpʊər, ˌjɔːm ˈkɪpər, ˌjoʊm-/ YOM kip-OOR, YAWM KIP-ər, YOHM-; Hebrew: יוֹם כִּפּוּר‎ Yōm Kippūr [ˈjom kiˈpuʁ], lit. 'Day of Atonement')...
- English attone or atoon (meaning "agreed" or "at one"). Expiation is related to the verb expiate, from Latin expio meaning "to atone" or "to purge by sacrifice"...
- Look up expiation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Expiation is another word for atonement, the removal of guilt or making of amends. Expiation may also...
- related to the idea of atonement and sometime mistakenly conflated with expiation. The discussion here encomp****es usage only in the Christian tradition...
- 5-year intervals. After 206, she was offered at least 11 further official expiations. Many of these were connected to famine and manifestations of plebeian...
- be Pragâpati, and hence there are these thirty-four utterances, called expiations. — Satapatha Brahmana 4:5:7:2 The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad describes the...
- In other biblical translations the water is referred to as water of expiation (Douay–Rheims Bible), water of separation (King James Version), water...
- verb impero, imperare, "to order, command") when special celebrations or expiations were called for. One of the most important sources for Roman holidays...
- they had been guillotined, and it is therefore dedicated to them as an expiation for that act. The closest métro station is Saint-Augustin . The chapel...
- the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out. I see the lives for which I lay down my life...