today's word for the day...
expiate \EK-spee-ayt\, transitive verb:To make amends for; to atone for.
Then his devout and long-suffering widow, a princess born, built a beautiful church on the estate to expiate his sins.-- Serge Schmemann, Echoes of a Native Land
Expiate comes from Latin expiare, from ex-, here used intensively, + piare, to seek to appease by an offering, to make good, to atone for, from pius, dutiful.
Then his devout and long-suffering widow, a princess born, built a beautiful church on the estate to expiate his sins.-- Serge Schmemann, Echoes of a Native Land
Expiate comes from Latin expiare, from ex-, here used intensively, + piare, to seek to appease by an offering, to make good, to atone for, from pius, dutiful.
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