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

- 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...
- English attone or atoon (meaning "agreed" or "at one"). Expiation is likewise related to the verb expiate, from Latin expio meaning "to atone" or "to purge...
- 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...
- Expiation is a 1922 British silent crime film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Ivy Close, Fred Raynham and Lionelle Howard. It was based on an 1887...
- be Pragâpati, and hence there are these thirty-four utterances, called expiations. — Satapatha Brahmana 4:5:7:2 The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad describes the...
- related to the idea of atonement and sometime mistakenly conflated with expiation. The discussion here encomp****es usage only in the Christian tradition...
- was never finished, was first announced to be La Ville des expiations ("The City of Expiations"), though Ballanche published La Vision d'Hébal ("Hébal's...
- temporary realm of enjoyment similar to Paradise, after a brief period of expiation in **** and before the next reincarnation, according to the law of karma...
- the pre-Islamic pagans of Mecca fasted on the tenth day of Muharram to expiate sin and avoid drought.[self-published source] Philip Jenkins argues that...
- Caracalla was thereafter tormented by guilt over his deed, but sought to expiate it by adding to this crime the proscription of all his brother's former...