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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The act of expiating; atonement.
  2. n. A means of expiating.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of expiating, or of making satisfaction or reparation for an offense; atonement; reparation. See atonement.
  2. n. The means by which atonement, satisfaction, or reparation of crimes is made; an atonement.
  3. n. An observance or ceremony intended to avert omens or prodigies.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An act of atonement for a sin or wrongdoing.
  2. n. obsolete The act of expiating or stripping off; plunder; pillage.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty.
  2. n. The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement.
  3. n. obsolete An act by which the threats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. compensation for a wrong
  2. n. the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)

Etymologies

  1. Latin expiatio. (Wiktionary)

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