The word "expiation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of atoning for a wrongdoing or sin by performing an act of repentance or penance. For example: "Expiation of his guilt was a necessary step before he could move on."
Generally, he seems to deploy the concept as expiation for past ideological lapses.
This, though unexceptionable, was seen as yet again avoiding the painful essence of Holocaust expiation and was compared unfavourably with Pope John Paul II's prayer in March 2000 at the same spot.Islamic clerics escorted the pope to the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem (shown above), to Bethlehem and to Nazareth.
Fairchild's bequest for the sermon was an expiation of his sense of guilt.
Self-flagellating is not sufficient expiation: the price of the bra must be cut, the newspaper redesigned, or, in this case, politics overhauled.For a start, Mr Brown could outdo Mr Cameron by dispensing the three fearsome political penalties to Labour's worst expenses miscreants, including some in the cabinet: ministerial sacking, withdrawal of the whip and deselection by constituencies.
But his protestations nevertheless represented an unusual degree of expiation by a pope, whose views on some issues can be proclaimed infallible.The European Commission's spokesman made the obvious point: that Pope Benedict should be free to say what he wants.
(There were other motives too, such as desire for expiation for the plague, which had ravaged Athens a second time in the winter of 427 426).
Some daily and monthly sacrifices could be celebrated in the home by a householder, but only the official priesthood could perform the complex seasonal sacrifices, offered three times a year at the beginning of spring, of the rainy season, and of the cool weather for the purpose of expiation and of abundance.
His insistence is on guilt as the evidence of man's fate, and on the possibility of expiation as the assertion of human freedom.
A complete and detailed system of casuistry was developed, which dealt with all things allowed and forbidden and with the forms of pollution and the expiation of each.
Books 1 7 contain magical prayers for precise purposes: spells for a long life, cures, curses, love charms, prayers for prosperity, charms for kingship and Brahmanhood, and expiations for evil actions.
Their principal contents address the duties of people at different stages of life, or ashramas (studenthood, householdership, retirement, and renunciation); dietary regulations; offenses and expiations; and the rights and duties of kings.
