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- noun Plural form of
expiation .
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Examples
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She never read the books she owed to these twinges; it was thus that she got her aversion to Thackeray -- one of his "expiations" was a set of Thackeray.
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She never read the books she owed to these twinges; it was thus that she got her aversion to Thackeray -- one of his "expiations" was a set of Thackeray.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889
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And thank god for that, because books of ex-communists 'expiations run to the superficial, egomaniacal and infantile stinky.
Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left, by Ronald Radosh (2001) 2008
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Zosimus and Sozomen pretend that, the heathen priests having told him that there were no expiations for such great crimes, he then made open profession of Christianity, and demolished many temples in the East.
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Mysteries and expiations were in credit almost throughout the earth.
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That which should offer men more encouragements to the social virtues than expiations for social crimes?
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The Roman Catholics have expiations which they call penances.
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As soon as religion was established, expiations were admitted.
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When any such thought comes into your mind, go and perform expiations, go as a suppliant to the temples of the Gods who avert evils, go to the society of those who are called good men among you; hear them tell and yourself try to repeat after them, that every man should honour the noble and the just.
Laws 2006
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Of these things, however, which now I do but touch upon, I will speak more largely when, having performed these expiations and purgings of the mind, I come to set forth the true way for the interpretation of nature.
The New Organon 2005
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