Crossword-Solution: EXPIATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Expiate | v. t. | To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin. |
| Expiate | v. t. | To purify with sacred rites. |
| Expiate | a. | Terminated. |
We have 35 clues for the answer “EXPIATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Square sins? | 1 answer |
| Make propitiation for | 1 answer |
| Make amends for guilt or sin | 1 answer |
| MAKE amends for sin | 1 answer |
| Atone for guilt | 1 answer |
| Atone for a crime. | 1 answer |
| Amends Make | 2 answers |
| Make reparations | 2 answers |
| Pay the penalty | 2 answers |
| Make amends (for) | 6 answers |
| ATONE for | 10 answers |
| Make Reparation | 12 answers |
| Atone | 26 answers |
| Decontaminate | 34 answers |
| filtrate | 34 answers |
| Launder | 37 answers |
| Compensate | 39 answers |
| Make up (for) | 40 answers |
| sieve | 42 answers |
| civilise | 42 answers |
| Scrub | 43 answers |
| absolve | 45 answers |
| Purge | 45 answers |
| filter | 47 answers |
| Winnow | 47 answers |
| clarify | 50 answers |
| Cultivate | 51 answers |
| Wash | 51 answers |
| amends | 54 answers |
| Make amends | 60 answers |
| Pay | 69 answers |
| Improve | 81 answers |
| BETTER ___ | 90 answers |
| Exact | 92 answers |
| Free | 144 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMCZAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EXPIATE (5)
But yet all is not don; Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his fealtie, and sinns Against the high Supremacie of Heav’n, Affecting God-head, and so loosing all, To expiate his Treason hath naught left, But to destruction sacred and devote, He with his whole posteritie must die, Die hee or Justice must; unless for him Som other able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction, death for death.
Light’s conscience has apparently told her that she could expiate an hour’s too great kindness by twenty years’ contempt.
The armes of all the ten, because they hade with uplifted hands renewed the Covenant at Lanark, were sent to the people of that town to expiate that crime, by placing these arms on the top of the prison.’ {106} Among these was John Neilson, the Laird of Corsack, who saved Turner’s life at Dumfries; in return for which service Sir James attempted, though without success, to get the poor man reprieved.
And the wife what of her share in the business? Had she also come to hate Aubert? Or did she seek to expiate her guilt by assisting her husband in the punishment of her seducer? A witness at the trial described Mme.
Expiate your sin here on earth; God may perhaps forgive you; I wish that He may, but He is inexorable, and will strike.” The broken-spirited, broken-hearted woman looked up, her eyes filled with tears.
Quotes with EXPIATE (3)
Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God? Think only of repentance, continual repentance, but dismiss fear altogether. Believe that God loves you as you cannot conceive; that He loves you with your sin, in your sin. It has been said of old that over one repentant sinner there is more joy in heaven than over ten righteous men. Go, and fear not. Be not bitter against men. Be not angry if you a…
We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. When death sunders our nearest ties, alone we sit in the shadow of our affliction. Alike mid the greatest triumphs and darkest tragedies of life we walk alone. On the divine heights of human attainments, eulogized and worshiped as a hero or saint, we stand alone. In ignorance, poverty, and vice, as a pauper or criminal, alone we starve or steal; alone we suffer the sneers and reb…
I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1952–2007).