0 to show that you are sorry for bad behaviour by doing something or accepting punishment:
At every moment for the rest of eternity there will be sin that has not been expiated, wrongs that have not been vindicated.
The assertion that known sin should be expiated publicly for the edification of those injured by the sin is certainly consonant with traditional calls for public penance.
Thrift is treated as a crime, to be expiated by large and repeated fines.
Under ordinary circumstances, when crime is detected and proved, the person who has committed the crime has to expiate it for a term prescribed judicially.
In the first place, it is grossly unfair to prisoners who loyally implement and expiate the consequences of their crime.
We speak of the discharged prisoner as having "expiated his crime"; as having "paid the price" of his misdeeds, and so on.
He declared that all guilt had to be expiated on earth, and he meant in this world here on this earth.
It is because they believe honestly that an erring people must expiate, and therefore interest rates must rise.
