Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who expiates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes expiation or atonement.
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- noun One who makes
expiation oratonement .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When the expiator was conscious of the under-motives and the after-glory of his act, both were wasted on him.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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KARRAKER: I really think that the expiator here - there's two of them - number one, officially, Marshall Faulk.
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God has promised remission of sins to believers, those who have entered into covenant with him, as often as they repent and flee by true faith to Christ their propitiator and expiator.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 1560-1609 1956
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And because Luke purposes to delineate Christ as the expiator of our sins, he makes no mention of these women.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Louis XVI., no longer feeble and irresolute, blundering and inert, becomes a patient, tranquil man, brave unto death, with charity to all, a true Christian, the innocent expiator of the crimes and faults of other reigns.
The Ruin of a Princess Cl 1912
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Agreeing in some points of his history, they all celebrate his life of penitence, his mortifications, his fastings, his functions of mediator and expiator, the enmity between him and another god, his adversary, their battles, and his ascendency.
The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788
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