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How to use expiation in a sentence

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Coleridge created his Xanadu by locating his poems in the true, at many levels, and working towards a kind of exorcism and expiation.
The attempted assassination was an act both of expiation and of restitution.
The Fast of Atonement was instituted in expiation of a mortal sin and observed as a day of penance and mourning.
It's a wraparound justification for a violence whose real end is the expiation of shame through massacre.
This is realized in the love of God, and the example and expiation of Christ as the mediator, and proclaimer of that love.
The predominant emotion was disgust and self-hate mixed with an urgent desire for expiation.
They extended to religious observance and penance, or expiation, though in the later period there is a tendency to concentrate on what looks more today, in the west, like law.
This prophetic depiction of the sacrificial death of Christ was offered by Isaiah as the only effective way of expiation from sin.
Like Plato's Saving God, he saved by the Truth, neither by expiation nor martyrdom.
The expiation system had widened the net and increased representation of marginalized groups.
Clearer and more detailed information is now available so people receiving expiation notices are fully aware of the process and its consequences.
Even supposing that punishment may effectively protect us in the future, we consider that it must be, in the first place, an expiation of the past.
That is the expiation for the oaths ye have sworn.
But law is, at best, an imperfect instrument of grief and expiation.
It is his sacrifice of expiation that cancels sin.
The number of offences for which cannabis expiation notices were issued in south Australia increased from around 6,000 in 1987-88 to approximately 17,000 in 1993-94 and in subsequent years.
But how long will I be detained in expiation before living by You!
I prayed in silence. After a moment, Jesus said to me, 'My child, unite yourself closely to Me during the sacrifice and offer My Blood and My Wounds to My Father in expiation for the sins of that city.
Garland Her road with Hail Marys and offerings of expiation!
As though in expiation of their sires' wealth, schoolboys often had to live in conditions that would have disgraced a Dickensian workhouse.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In Smith's theory there is confusion between the two ideas of communion and expiation or placation.
With the old conception of law and the expiation of crime it was otherwise.
That thing which he was minded to do would be expiation in the sight of Heaven.
His guilt must have already had its expiation in years of remorse and suffering.
If his thoughts drifted towards any potential expiation demanded by officialism, he put them aside.
This was all he had to offer to the Father in expiation of his contumely and refractoriness, his errors and his falls.
There is but one abode for the blessed, my dear mademoiselle, and one expiation for us all.
Only one great and awful fault, which meseems hath been its own expiation.
In doing for her lay the only expiation possible for him in the world.
This expiation, however, would be as terrible for me as for you.
Such a provocation as he gave me could have but one expiation.
Unhappily no man exists who has not in his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
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