Meanings (ES + gloss)
expiar
To atone or make reparation for.
The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.
Thus those pious souls who expiate the remainder of their sins amidst such tortures will receive a special and opportune consolation, […]
expiar
To make amends or pay the penalty for.
And when it was required of him by the rigid laws of a haphazard justice, which in retrospect seems like every night of the week, he pressed his limp forelock into a filthy washbas…
He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed.
Phrases