Sentence examples for expiation of from inspiring English sources
"expiation of" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It means to make amends or to atone for a wrongdoing or sin. Example: The criminal was sentenced to life in prison as expiation of his heinous crimes.
Fairchild's bequest for the sermon was an expiation of his sense of guilt.
I can see why, since it is about the expiation of an overpowering sense of guilt.
The natives crucify him in expiation of no one's sins but his own.
Through them, she will find an expiation of sorts, though not where she expects.
It's a wraparound justification for a violence whose real end is the expiation of shame through massacre".
Moreover, it deprived the dead of any chance of a postmortem (i.e., very belated) expiation of their misdeeds.
That ought to be done, and I'd like to do it — maybe as a kind of expiation for some of my own sins.
In real life, Sarah Winchester's daughter died in infancy, and her husband died young; the myth holds that she considered herself to be cursed by the spirits of those who died by gunshots from Winchester products—and that her obsessive renovation of the house was a form of expiation, on command from the spirits who demanded that she shelter them.
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.
Mr. Sharpton says the same thing about his behavior in the Brawley case, which for many New Yorkers still qualifies as original sin, requiring a form of expiation on his part before he can claim the mantle of a true leader.
Despite obstruction from Verres' friends, Cicero collected massive evidence against him, presented his case to fit into the political context of the year, and obtained Verres' conviction as an act of expiation for the shortcomings of the Sullan order.
