Crossword-Solution: EXPIABLE 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

Missing silver spoons and cooked petty cash were trivialities usually expiable at the price of a boot-assisted dismissal; but this--! “You understand?” Gianapolis was not smiling, now.

Etym: [See Expiate.] Defn: Capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt.

Why do the Erinyes persecute him and not her who is far more guilty? The reply is striking: "She was not related by blood to the man whom she slew." The murder of a man not consanguineous, even though he be the husband of the murderess, is expiable, does not concern the Erinyes; it is only their duty to prosecute the murder of consanguineous relatives.

Homicide was not the only crime thus expiable: blood-money could be exacted for all crimes of violence.

All other religions under heaven condemn actions which they suppose to be wicked, and prescribe certain forms of expiation for such as they suppose to be expiable; but Jesus proposes to pardon, not so much the sinful act as the sinner, the sinful nature out of which the act ariseth, and to regenerate this nature so that it will hate what it believes to be wicked, and love what it believes to be holy.