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What is the adjective for expiates?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb expiate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

expiable
  1. Capable of being expiated or atoned for.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. expiatory, expiative, propitiatory, atonable, atoneable, propitiative, purgatorial, purifying
  3. Examples:
      4. “The hymn admits that the entry of the Wife into the ritual is something of an offense, but an expiable one.”
expiatory
  1. Of or pertaining to expiation.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. expiative, propitiatory, atonable, atoneable, expiable, propitiative, purgatorial, purifying
  3. Examples:
      4. “In an expiatory sacrifice the blood which is shed is regarded as wiping out a transgression.”
      “He died in his forties in a sanitarium, unvisited by Eugene, who, twenty years later, wrote this expiatory play.”
      “Accordingly, he sees storytelling festivals as large expiatory and redemptory rituals of an almost religious kind.”
expiative
  1. That serves to expiate.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. expiatory, propitiatory, atonable, atoneable, expiable, propitiative, purgatorial, purifying
expiatorious
  1. (archaic) expiatory
expiated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of expiate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. atoned, recompensed, redeemed, redressed, squared, compensated, mended, rectified, corrected, amended, remedied, offset, offsetted, atoned for, made amends, made good, made amends for, made up for, did penance for, done penance for, made restitution for, put right, made reparation for, did penance, done penance, made good for, made redress for, paid dues, made recompense for, requited, repaid, made reparation, compensated for, made recompense, redeemed oneself, made restitution, made up, made reparations, paid back, payed, paid, indemnified, propitiated, repented, repaired, paid the penalty, paid the price, redressed the balance, put to rights, answered … more
expiating
  1. present participle of expiate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. atoning, recompensing, redeeming, redressing, squaring, compensating, mending, rectifying, correcting, amending, remedying, offsetting, atoning for, making amends, making good, making amends for, making up for, doing penance for, making restitution for, putting right, making reparation for, doing penance, making good for, making redress for, paying dues, making recompense for, requiting, repaying, making reparation, making recompense, compensating for, making up, paying back, making restitution, redeeming oneself, making reparations, paying, indemnifying, propitiating, repenting, repairing, paying the price, paying the penalty, redressing the balance, righting, restoring, paying the price for, putting to rights, answering, reimbursing … more
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