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# expiate

verb (expiates, expiated, expiating)

«expiate» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

To make up for a wrong or sin by suffering or doing something good, so that the guilt is removed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expiate/#m1)

### In the lessons

in old tales, a wicked person suffers or does penance to pay for a sin

### Examples

- He tried to expiate his crime by giving his gold to the poor. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expiate/#x1)
- The king expiated his sin with years of penance. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expiate/#x2)
- Only a kind deed can expiate that wrong. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expiate/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

To expiate is to have sin wiped away or atoned for, often by a sacrifice or by God's mercy.

**Interpretation.** The tradition teaches that after the Temple fell, kindness, truth, prayer and repentance take the place of sacrifice in atoning for sin. Isaiah's lips touched by a coal show a prophet being cleansed for his task.

### Examples

- By mercy and truth iniquity is expiated; and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil. (Writings PRO.16.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/expiate/#x1)
- and he touched my mouth with it, and said: Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin expiated. (Prophets ISA.6.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/expiate/#x2)
- And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering for ever.' (Prophets 1SA.3.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/expiate/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «expiate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expiate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«expiate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/expiate.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «expiate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/expiate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«expiate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/expiate.html) on Mova free.