Crossword-Solution: EXPIATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Expiation | n. | The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty. |
| Expiation | n. | The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement. |
| Expiation | n. | An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “EXPIATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Penitent's aim | 1 answer |
| penitent form | 1 answer |
| the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing | 1 answer |
| AUSTERITIES | 2 answers |
| purgatory | 8 answers |
| atonement | 11 answers |
| penitence | 12 answers |
| Indemnity | 18 answers |
| Penance | 19 answers |
| Compensation | 46 answers |
| Offering | 51 answers |
| amends | 54 answers |
| Ransom | 57 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXPIATION (5)
Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends; Ð with for.
See 1st Boot.] (Law) (a) Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.
Here now the Holy See at Rome, coming to the aid of the poor Church, invented indulgences, whereby it forgave and remitted [expiation or] satisfaction, first, for a single instance, for seven years, for a hundred years and distributed them among the cardinals and bishops, so that one could grant indulgence for a hundred years and another for a hundred days.
His heart was beating a little faster than usual and he had no clear idea of what he was about to do or say, beyond the definite conviction that, whatever passing impulse of expiation moved him, he would not be fool enough to tell her that he had not sent her letter.
The transit from dock to hotel was like a visit to a new circle in the _Inferno_, where trains rumble eternally overhead, and cable cars glide and block around a pale-faced throng of the damned, who are forced, in expiation of their sins, to hasten forever toward an unreachable goal.
Quotes with EXPIATION (3)
But that’s the way life is; felicity and expiation play together in the narrow lanes of life like bosom friends, inseparable. You find one, and the other is always around the corner.
To adore, one must be an inferior. But the Three Persons of the Blessed Trinity are equal; none is superior, none is inferior. The Son equal in all things to the Father may love the Father; He cannot adore Him. Desiring to give to His Father a divinely conceived form of love, the Word decreed to become man. Equal to the Father, He will become inferior to Him, not as God, but as man; and thus, He will be able to adore Him. In heaven, He cannot adore; on earth He can.... Even h…
The subject dropped, and we sat on in the dusk that was rapidly deepening into night. The door into the hall was open at our backs, and a panel of light from the lamps within was cast out to the terrace. Wandering moths, invisible in the darkness, suddenly became manifest as they fluttered into this illumination, and vanished again as they passed out of it. One moment they were there, living things with life and motion of their own, the next they quite disappeared. How inexpl…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1984).